Bell 407
N407WA is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Med-Trans CORP, a corporation in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 1, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53222
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A4C897 (octal 51144227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 1, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00656871
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Med-Trans CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2200 Westcourt Rd
Denton, TX 76207
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N407WA, 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 Med-Trans CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 5, 2005, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 1, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53222 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N407WA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 407 (serial 53086, cancelled February 27, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N407WA: Accident on September 16, 2025 at Decatur, TX: minor 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 091
The instructor candidate’s erroneous operation of the throttle during an autorotation from altitude with power recovery, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA380 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data