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N402MA

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407

Valid Montana

N402MA is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 26, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
Model
407 · all 407s and related versions
Serial number
53834
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
Seats
8
Year built
2008
Transponder code
A4B523 (octal 51132443)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 28, 2017
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 26, 2017
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01253246

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Minuteman Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
5225 Hwy 10 W Airport Box 16
Missoula, MT 59808

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2009-02-03Bell 222U · exported to Canada · Sale reported

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N402MA, 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 Minuteman Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 28, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 26, 2017, 9 years after the 2008 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53834 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N402MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 222U (serial 47540, cancelled February 3, 2009). 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 N402MA. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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