Bell 407
N229SF is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 7 seats. It is registered to N179Sf LLC, an LLC in Chandler, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2005.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Viking Aviation LLC, 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 Friday at 7:13 pm.
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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
- 53652
- 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
- 7
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A20406 (octal 50402006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 15, 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 15, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00178339
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N179Sf 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
- 50 N Mcclintock Dr Ste 1
Chandler, AZ 85226-3765
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.
Connections how N229SF links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 986 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Viking Aviation 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
- N179Sf LLC 13 aircraft in the fleet
- Chandler, AZ 445 aircraft registered in this town
- Chandler Municipal · CHD
- Stellar Airpark · P19
- Arizona 8,410 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
- Where N229SF is now · Last seen Friday at 7:13 pm.
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The public federal record on N229SF, 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 N179Sf LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 14, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 15, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53652 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N229SF according to the deregistered file. [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 N229SF. 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 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