Bell 407
N142MA is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 13, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53123
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A0AB32 (octal 50125462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 1997
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 13, 2000
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00136401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Minuteman Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5225 Hwy 10W
Airport Box 16
Missoula, MT 59808
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.
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The public federal record on N142MA, 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.
Valid registration to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 1997, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 13, 2000, 4 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53123 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N142MA according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N142MA: Accident on September 11, 2014 at Moab, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 407 · operated under 133
The pilot's failure to ensure adequate clearance from terrain while landing on sloped terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14CA373 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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