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N138PD

Bell 407

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPuerto Rico

N138PD is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Puerto Rico Police Department, a government body in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
407 · all 407s and related versions
Serial number
53630
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
Seats
7
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A09A32 (octal 50115062)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
June 24, 2005
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 18, 2004
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00139939

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Puerto Rico Police Department
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 9023909
San Juan, PR 00902-3909

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N138PD, 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 Puerto Rico Police Department, a government body, certificate issued June 24, 2005, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53630 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N138PD according to the deregistered file. [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 N138PD. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data