Bell 407
N49TF is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Bct Aviation LLC, an LLC in Saint Martinville, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 21, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53399
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A60F6E (octal 51407556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 29, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 21, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00345932
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bct Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Premier Rotors
7020 Main Hwy
Saint Martinville, LA 70582-7237
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N49TF, 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 Bct Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 26, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 21, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53399 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N49TF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lewis Donald R KR-2 (serial DRL1, cancelled December 4, 2018); Fortik Terry KR-1-TLF (serial S1941F, cancelled May 13, 1993). 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 N49TF: Accident on April 6, 1995 at Ogallala, NE: 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: Lewis KR-2 · operated under 091
the owner/builder's improper maintenance (installation). Factors were the carburetor reversed and the mixture control cable not secured.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA117 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