{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2022-01-24","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-09-16","city":"GRAND RAPIDS","country_code":"US","county_code":"081","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59998","engine_horsepower":894,"engine_maker":"SAFRAN","engine_model":"ARRIEL 2E","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-09-21","maker":"Airbus Helicopters Deutschland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS DEUTSCHLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620025","mode_s_code":"50474514","mode_s_hex":"A2794C","model":"MBB-BK117 D-3","n_number":"N259DV","name":"RDV LEASING LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N259DV is an Airbus Helicopters Deutschland MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Rdv Leasing LLC, an LLC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated January 24, 2022.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rdv Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 16, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated January 24, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21019 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N259DV according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N259DV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":10,"serial_number":"21019","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"200 MONROE AVE NW STE 100","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01344828","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N259DV","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2021,"zip":"495032213"}