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N473RA

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407

Valid Colorado

N473RA is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. 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 August 16, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 13, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
Model
407 · all 407s and related versions
Serial number
54045
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
Seats
8
Year built
2010
Transponder code
A5CDB7 (octal 51346667)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 16, 2022
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
December 16, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 13, 2010
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01061466

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Methods LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1926

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N473RA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 16, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 13, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N473RA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N473RA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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