Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407
N53AM is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 8 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 56493
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6AE20 (octal 51527040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 10, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 10, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01536965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118
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 2
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N53AM, 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 Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 10, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56493 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-7920037, cancelled August 2, 2020). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 4, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N53AM: Accident on August 20, 1995 at Alpine, TX: no injuries, minor 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: Piper PA-31T · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOTS OF BOTH AIRPLANES TO SEE AND AVOID EACH OTHER. A FACTOR WAS THE CESSNA'S INOPERATIVE RADIO.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA352 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