{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-12-19","airworthiness_ops":"Transport","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-07-21","city":"","country_code":"","county_code":"","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":"2033-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-21","maker":"Airbus Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"AIRBUS HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"5620037","mode_s_code":"51552743","mode_s_hex":"A6D5E3","model":"MBB-BK117 D-3","n_number":"N54DE","name":"","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N54DE is an Airbus Helicopters Inc MBB-BK117 D-3, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 9 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 19, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued July 21, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for transport, dated December 19, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21368 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N54DE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 2274, cancelled July 27, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N54DE. 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":"","region_code":"","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":9,"serial_number":"21368","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01511143","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N54DE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":""}