Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N450AM is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 54435
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A57228 (octal 51271050)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2013
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 6, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01128368
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5500 S Quebec St
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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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 N450AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54435 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N450AM 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 N450AM: Accident on March 3, 2019 at Union Center, SD: 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 135
The ambulance driver’s failure to see the helicopter’s rotating main rotor blades in dark night conditions, which resulted in the ambulance’s inadvertent collision with the helicopter. Contributing to the accident was the ambulance driver's failure to follow procedures when approaching the helicopter.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN19LA092 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