Bell 407
N17SP is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 7 seats. It is registered to New York State Police, a government body in Albany, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 25, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 1, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53444
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A11872 (octal 50214162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 25, 2001
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 1, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00635930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New York State Police
- Type
- Government
- Address
- State Campus Bldg 22
1220 Washington Ave
Albany, NY 12226-2252 - Co-owners
- Aviation Unit
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N17SP, 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 New York State Police, a government body, certificate issued January 25, 2001, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 1, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53444 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45351, cancelled June 26, 2000). 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 N17SP: Accident on September 22, 1999 at Randolph, NY: serious 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 206L-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain visual separation from the wires. A factor was sunglare.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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