Bell 407
N489DM is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Paragon Air Group, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 23, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53619
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A60A5F (octal 51405137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 23, 2004
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00124639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Paragon Air Group
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9500 Feather Grass Ln Ste 120-303
Fort Worth, TX 76177
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 N489DM, 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 Paragon Air Group, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 23, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53619 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N489DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-235 (serial 2810807, cancelled August 22, 1996). 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 N489DM: Accident on September 15, 2020 at Fort Worth, TX: no 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 flight instructor’s delay in rolling the throttle to the fly position during a practice autorotation maneuver that resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA395 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