Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407
N38AJ is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Madera, California. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 56317
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A458FA (octal 51054372)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- May 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01382477
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4140 Aviation Dr
Madera, CA 93637-9227
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
Records check free · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N38AJ, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38AJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M20E (serial 776, cancelled September 6, 2016); Roman Edwin R LONG-EZ (serial 1538, cancelled April 10, 1991). 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]
3 NTSB records under N38AJ: Accident on August 26, 2025 at Lincoln, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 19, 2002 at Glasgow, MT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 10, 1988 at Salmon, ID: fatal, destroyed (1 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell Textron Canada LTD 407 · operated under 135
On August 26, 2025, at about 0100 mountain daylight time, a Bell 407 GTX, N38AJ, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Lincoln, Montana. The pilot and two passengers were not injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 air medical flight. The pilot reported departing Missoula Montana Airport (MSO) Missoula, Montana and arrived near the town of Lincoln, Montana about 0048. The pilot orbited the scene for about 15 minutes waiting for a ground ambulance to arrive. During that time the pilot conducted multiple landing area r…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA260 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate flying airspeed resulting in a stall/mush condition and loss of control at low altitude. A contributing factor was the pilot's distraction from flying the aircraft while attempting to retract the landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA02LA031 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Roman LONG-EZ · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA89LA011 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