Bell 407
N26CH is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Coastal Air Service INC, a corporation in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest, dated February 8, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53312
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A27CDE (octal 50476336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest · February 8, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00973826
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coastal Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7424 Coastal Dr
Panama City, FL 32404-4015
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N26CH, 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 Coastal Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 15, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 8, 2019, 21 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53312 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26CH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Six Herb/Huber Chris RV6 (serial 20515, cancelled February 6, 2013). 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 N26CH: Accident on August 12, 1998 at Roseburg, OR: no 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: Six/Huber RV-6 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA98LA163 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