Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N407KS 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 King County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 17, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53812
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A4C794 (octal 51143624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 17, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00428399
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King County Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 516 3Rd Ave Rm W150 Kc Cart
Seattle, WA 98104-2392
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N407KS, 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 King County Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued September 17, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 17, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N407KS 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 N407KS: Accident on December 28, 2012 at Renton, WA: 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: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 · operated under PUBU
The pilot's failure to maintain helicopter control during takeoff from an unstable landing platform. Contributing to the accident was the operator's inadequate chocking procedures for the wheeled landing platform, which included chocking only two of the platforms four rear wheels and led to the platform's instability.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13TA081 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data