Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407
N289MS is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Clipper Group LLC, an LLC in Newport Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 22, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 1:46 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- 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
- 56456
- 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-C47E/4 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A2F08E (octal 50570216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 24, 2025
- 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 · August 22, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01515017
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clipper Group 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
- 4450 Macarthur Blvd Fl 2Nd
Newport Beach, CA 92660-2045
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 N289MS links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 986 registered
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 434 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-C47E/4 182 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Clipper Group LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Newport Beach, CA 133 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 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
- Where N289MS is now · Last seen October 10 at 1:46 pm.
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The public federal record on N289MS, 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 Clipper Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 24, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 22, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56456 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N289MS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407 (serial 56452, cancelled July 7, 2025); DJI INSPIRE 1 (serial W13DCC15020467, cancelled March 16, 2019). 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 N289MS. 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