Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N500SC is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 8 seats. It is registered to South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, a government body in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 5, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53947
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A63B83 (octal 51435603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 5, 2019
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01022393
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 4400 Broad River Rd
Columbia, SC 29210-4012
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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 N500SC, 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 South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, a government body, certificate issued December 2, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 5, 2019, 10 years after the 2009 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53947 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500SC 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 N500SC: Accident on June 26, 2019 at Summersville, SC: 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: Md Helicopter 369 · operated under 091
The copilot’s disabling of the flight controls of an operating helicopter without telling the pilot on the controls, which resulted in a subsequent loss of control and collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA19CA403 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