Bell 407
N39AE is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53103
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A48075 (octal 51100165)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 12, 2019
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00596401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Evac Ems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1001 Boardwalk Springs Pl Ste 250
O Fallon, MO 63368-4100
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 N39AE, 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 Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 29, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 12, 2019, 22 years after the 1997 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 53103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N39AE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177A (serial 177-01179, cancelled September 4, 2012). 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 N39AE: Accident on September 20, 1999 at Big Bear City, CA: 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: Cessna 177A · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to fuel system contamination, which resulted from the mechanic's failure to fully inspect and verify the serviceability of the fuel system before returning the aircraft to service for a maintenance ferry flight. The pilot's decision to attempt flight with unresolved discrepancies in the reliability of the engine to produce power was a factor in the accident.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA314 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
