Bell 407
N20BH is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Chemair Helicopters INC, a corporation in Jefferson, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53242
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A18FCB (octal 50307713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 28, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00477061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chemair Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 316 E Rock St
Jefferson, WI 53549-2159
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 N20BH, 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 Chemair Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 8, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 28, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20BH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hiscoe EAA BIPLANE (serial 1930, cancelled June 3, 2011). 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 N20BH: Accident on August 3, 2024 at Raft River, ID: 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 PUBU
The pilot’s misdiagnosis of an erroneous engine instrument indication and his subsequent decision to enter an autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing due to degraded visual cues and low ambient light conditions. Contributing to the accident were the erroneous engine indications likely caused by an undetermined electrical supply disruption; time pressure, pilot fatigue, and plan continuation bias as daylight diminished and the crew aimed to complete the flight; and cognitive overload from multiple airframe and engine caution indications.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA265 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