Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 427
N427BW is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 427, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 9 seats. It is registered to Inland Empire Air LLC, an LLC in Fontana, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 15, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 427 · all 427s 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. This is how the Bell 427 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
- 56081
- 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, 2 motors · P&W Canada PW207D · 572 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A515CE (octal 51212716)
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 17, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · December 15, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01112621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Inland Empire Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9890 Cherry Ave
Fontana, CA 92335-5202
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N427BW links to the rest of the register
- Bell 427 13 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 731 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 35 aircraft with this engine series · 572 hp
- Type certificate R00001RC · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Inland Empire Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fontana, CA 25 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,713 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 427 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 427 77 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 427 31 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D 133 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N427BW.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N427BW, 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 Inland Empire Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N427BW 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 N427BW. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data