Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N497AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation in North Salt Lake, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 11, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 54687
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A62A1E (octal 51425036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 11, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01209668
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 39 E Ridge Dr Ste 201
North Salt Lake, UT 84054
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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 N497AE, 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 Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued July 28, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 11, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54687 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N497AE 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 N497AE: Accident on September 28, 2004 at Las Cruces, NM: 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: American Eurocopter AS-350-B3 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during takeoff resulting in the helicopter's skid striking the helipad and the helicopter's subsequent rollover. Factors contributing to the accident were the pilot's improper preflight planning/decision, his failure to use the helicopter's landing/taxi lights and searchlight, the bright night, and the pilots diminished ability to see visual references.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN04LA149 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