Bell 407
N20WH is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Gulf Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Santa Fe, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 8, 1999.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Westwind Helicopters, Inc., 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 November 5 at 9:46 am.
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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
- 53377
- 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-C47 · 600 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A191A6 (octal 50310646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- 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 · July 8, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00565672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gulf Helicopters 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
- 8426 Fm 2004 Rd
Santa Fe, TX 77510-8494
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 N20WH links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 985 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
- Westwind Helicopters, Inc. · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C47 123 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Gulf Helicopters LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Fe, TX 30 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,979 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Combustion Case, cracked · 2017-03-27
- Where N20WH is now · Last seen November 5 at 9:46 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N20WH.json.
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The public federal record on N20WH, 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 Gulf Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 14, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 8, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53377 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20WH was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Eurocopter France EC120B (serial 1314, cancelled March 17, 2011); Horn VANCRAFT (serial 3, cancelled February 22, 1984). 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 N20WH. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data