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Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N229AM is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2011. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2011.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Methods LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- 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
- 54071
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A2027C (octal 50401174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 29, 2026
- 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 11, 2011
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01068339
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods 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
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1926
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
Connections how N229AM links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 986 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 732 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Air Methods LLC · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C47B 537 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Air Methods LLC 341 aircraft in the fleet
- Greenwood Village, CO 439 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,454 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
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C47B 6 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blower, odor · 2026-09-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, odor · 2026-09-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, odor · 2026-07-17
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N229AM.json.
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The public federal record on N229AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 29, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N229AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC305, cancelled July 17, 2003). 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]
2 NTSB records under N229AM: Accident on April 16, 2003 at Denver, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 17, 1996 at Fargo, ND: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA226TC · operated under 135
The failure of the landing gear system and the flight crew's failure to ascertain that the landing gear was down and locked. A contributing factor was the inadequate maintenance inspections performed by maintenance personnel.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA226TC · operated under 135
the flight crew did not comply with the gear down and lock checklist. The factors were a jammed nose gear and inattentive preflight planning/preparations by the pilot-in-command.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data