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A Bell 407, the same model family as N1028S
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026
N1028S

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N1028S is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 8 seats. It is registered to St Johns County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Saint Augustine, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 11, 2013.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
Model
407 · all 407s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Composite main rotor blades. This is how the Bell 407 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
54405
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
8
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A00FA3 (octal 50007643)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 13, 2019
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 11, 2013
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01130951

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
St Johns County Sheriffs Office
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4015 Lewis Speedway
Saint Augustine, FL 32095

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-01-30Ahrens Aircraft Corp. AR 404 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N1028S links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rolls-Royce 250-C47B 536 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
  • Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
Owner
Place
  • Saint Augustine, FL 185 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,698 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1028S.json.

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The public federal record on N1028S, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to St Johns County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued August 13, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 11, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1028S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ahrens Aircraft Corp. AR 404 (serial 004, cancelled January 30, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1028S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data