Bell 407
N496AE is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 6, 1999.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Air Evac EMS, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 11:56 am.
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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
- 53328
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A62667 (octal 51423147)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 2024
- 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 · January 6, 1999
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00683916
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Evac Ems INC
- 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
- 1001 Boardwalk Springs Pl Ste 250
O Fallon, MO 63368-4100
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.
Connections how N496AE links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 984 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
- Air Evac EMS, Inc. · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C47 123 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Air Evac Ems INC 162 aircraft in the fleet
- O Fallon, MO 180 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,817 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: Skin, cracked · 2020-09-24
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stiffener, cracked · 2019-04-30
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 2019-04-30
- Where N496AE is now · Last seen Saturday at 11:56 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N496AE.json.
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The public federal record on N496AE, 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 Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2008, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 6, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53328 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N496AE 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 N496AE: Accident on November 3, 2015 at San Antonio, 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 135
The failure of the No. 3 tail rotor adapter and shaft due to a loss of torque on the retaining nut. Contributing to the accident was the lack of a requirement to inspect the tail rotor assembly for security in the helicopter manufacturer's maintenance manual and the operator's approved aircraft inspection program.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data