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.
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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
- 53222
- 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
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A4C897 (octal 51144227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2025
- 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 · December 1, 1997
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00656871
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Med-Trans CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2200 Westcourt Rd
Denton, TX 76207
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N407WA links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 985 registered
- Bell 3,079 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-C47 123 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Med-Trans CORP 84 aircraft in the fleet
- Denton, TX 497 aircraft registered in this town
- Denton Enterprise Airport · DTO
- Joy Airport · 17TA
- Texas 29,945 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Transmission, making metal · 2017-09-11
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data