Bell 407
N165SP is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Southern Utah University, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 29, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53458
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A105DF (octal 50202737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 29, 2000
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00263645
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Utah University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2410 Aviation Way
Cedar City, UT 84721-8312
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N165SP, 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 Southern Utah University, a government body, certificate issued February 8, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 29, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53458 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N165SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 277305105, cancelled December 2, 1985). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N165SP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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