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Bell 407
N406TD is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Hfs Heli V LLC, an LLC in New York, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 2007.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Helicopter Flight Services, Inc., 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 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
- 53745
- 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-C47B · 650 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A4C498 (octal 51142230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2024
- 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 · February 12, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00311939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hfs Heli V 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
- 780 3Rd Ave Fl 32
New York, NY 10017-2030
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.
Connections how N406TD links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 984 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Helicopter Flight Services, Inc. · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C47B 15 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Hfs Heli V LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- New York, NY 479 aircraft registered in this town
- John F Kennedy International · JFK
- Laguardia Airport · LGA
- Long Island Mac Arthur Airport · ISP
- New York Stewart International · SWF
- 5 more landing places in town
- New York 6,663 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
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C47B 1,403 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hmu, degraded · 2017-05-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seal, deteriorated · 2015-12-28
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N406TD.json.
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The public federal record on N406TD, 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 Hfs Heli V LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 12, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53745 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N406TD according to the deregistered file. [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 N406TD: Incident on September 21, 2023 at Linden, NJ. 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: Bell 407 · operated under UNK
The fracture of the upper-left tail boom attachment bolt due to abnormal loading of the bolt caused by a gap and misalignment between the upper-left longeron and the tail boom. Contributing to this incident was the lack of a check to verify the absence of gaps or misalignments at the conclusion of installation for the upper-left longeron.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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