Bell 407
N284SP is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Kentucky State Police, a government body in Frankfort, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2005.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 12:40 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
- 53655
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A2DE75 (octal 50557165)
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 20, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 11, 2024
- 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 27, 2005
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00181369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kentucky State Police
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 919 Versailles Rd
Frankfort, KY 40601-4740
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 N284SP links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 984 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce 250-C47B 536 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Kentucky State Police 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Frankfort, KY 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Capital City Airport · FFT
- Kentucky 2,978 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 N284SP is now · Last seen Tuesday at 12:40 pm.
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The public federal record on N284SP, 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 Kentucky State Police, a government body, certificate issued April 20, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53655 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N284SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S8235, cancelled August 12, 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 N284SP: Accident on March 13, 2008 at Indiantown, FL: fatal, substantial damage (4 fatal). 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: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed while maneuvering at low altitude. Contributing to the accident was the overweight condition of the airplane and the inoperative stall warning horn.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data