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A Bell 407, the same model family as N407GF
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N407GF

Bell 407

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesGeorgia

N407GF is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2000. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Georgia Forestry Commission, a government body in Macon, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2001 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 24, 2000.

Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 8:17 am.

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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
53452
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
Seats
7
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A4C73E (octal 51143476)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 27, 2001
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 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 · October 24, 2000
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00905940

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Georgia Forestry Commission
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2456 Hubbard Road
Macon, GA 31217

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 N407GF links to the rest of the register

Design
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
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N407GF.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N407GF, 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 Georgia Forestry Commission, a government body, certificate issued March 27, 2001, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53452 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N407GF according to the deregistered file. [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 N407GF. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data