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N3191, a Bell 407
N3191 itself. Photo: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Left, SDSS and PS1; right, NOT+ALFSOC/Bose et al. 2020 Alt text: NGC 3191 befor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. More: Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N3191

Bell 407

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesLouisiana

N3191 is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Gm Leasing CO LLC, an LLC in Broussard, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 5, 1997.

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.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
407 · all 407s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
53211
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 · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
7
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A36ABB (octal 50665273)

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 4, 2017
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 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 · November 5, 1997
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00986781

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gm Leasing CO 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
1318 Smede Hwy
Broussard, LA 70518-8028
Charter N3191 with Viking Aviation LLC:

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

1997-07-09Piccard AX-6 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N3191 links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Engine
  • Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C47 123 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
  • Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
Owner
Place
  • Broussard, LA 141 aircraft registered in this town
  • Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N3191, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gm Leasing CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 4, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 5, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53211 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3191 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piccard AX-6 (serial 29, cancelled July 9, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3191. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data