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N159AM, a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N159AM

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N159AM is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2019. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 2024.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire.

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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
54810
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-C47E/4 · 600 hp
Seats
8
Year built
2019
Transponder code
A0EBAA (octal 50165652)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 16, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 16, 2025
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 · December 18, 2024
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01480455

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Methods LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1926
Charter N159AM with Air Methods LLC:

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-11-08Hawker-Siddeley HUNTER MK 58A · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N159AM links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Rolls-Royce 250-C47E/4 182 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
  • Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
Owner
Place
  • Greenwood Village, CO 439 aircraft registered in this town
  • Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N159AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 16, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 18, 2024, 5 years after the 2019 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54810 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N159AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hawker-Siddeley HUNTER MK 58A (serial XE-23, cancelled November 8, 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 N159AM. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data