Bell 407
N407KB is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Orange County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Orlando, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 1998 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 27, 1997.
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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
- 53146
- 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-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A4C785 (octal 51143605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 1998
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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 · May 27, 1997
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00806531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Orange County Sheriffs Office
- 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
- 3534 e Amelia St
Orlando, FL 32803-5148
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.
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N407KB links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 986 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 530 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Orange County Sheriffs Office 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Orlando, FL 581 aircraft registered in this town
- Kissimmee Gateway Airport · ISM
- Orlando Executive · ORL
- Orlando International · MCO
- Orlando Sanford International · SFB
- Florida 21,706 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-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N407KB.json.
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The public federal record on N407KB, 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 Orange County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued October 30, 1998, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 27, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N407KB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N407KB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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