Bell 407
N1612 is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Gm Leasing CO LLC, an LLC in Broussard, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1996.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Rotorcraft Leasing Company, L.L.C., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 1:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA 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
- 53044
- 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 · Allison 250 SERIES · 300 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A0F803 (octal 50174003)
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 28, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 14, 2024
- 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 10, 1996
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00636021
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gm Leasing CO 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
- 1318 Smede Hwy
Broussard, LA 70518-8028
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 2
Connections how N1612 links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 984 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotorcraft Leasing Company, L.L.C. · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250 series 446 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Gm Leasing CO LLC 36 aircraft in the fleet
- Broussard, LA 141 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 407 62 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 407 6,813 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 407 317 supplemental type certificates
- Where N1612 is now · Last seen October 14 at 1:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N1612, 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 Gm Leasing CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 10, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53044 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1612 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hendricks Autogyro HAG 101 (serial 252851, cancelled June 30, 2009); Keystone Aircraft Corp PATHFINDER (serial 137, cancelled May 5, 1946). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1612: Accident on September 7, 2007 at Prajuabkhirikha: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 206B · operated under NUSN
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data