Bell 407
N5259N is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Bex INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 1998 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 21, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53192
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A69F21 (octal 51517441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 1998
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 21, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00746761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bex INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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.
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The public federal record on N5259N, 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 Bex INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 22, 1998, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 21, 1998, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53192 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5259N 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 N5259N: Accident on May 22, 2001 at Schoolcraft, MI: fatal. 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 Helicopter 407 · operated under 091
The pilot rated passenger failed to maintain clearance with the rotor blades as he exited the helicopter.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA145 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