Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N407SH is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2014. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Stanislaus County, a government body in Modesto, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 15, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 54501
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A4C83A (octal 51144072)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 15, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01149833
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stanislaus County
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 250 E Hackett Rd
Modesto, CA 95358-9415
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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 N407SH, 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 Stanislaus County, a government body, certificate issued September 1, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 2022, 8 years after the 2014 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54501 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N407SH 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 N407SH: Accident on August 19, 2006 at Havre, MT: 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 407 · operated under 133
The pilot inadvertently allowing the helicopter to enter into a vortex ring state (settling with power) condition while he was lowering a long-line load to the ground, resulting in the helicopter settling to the ground and its tail rotor impacting part of the rigging used to haul the load. Factors include the long-line load and its rigging sitting on the ground at the point where the helicopter settled to the terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06CA165 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