Bell 407
N555AS is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Aero Leasing INC, a corporation in Medford, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 6, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53591
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Honeywell HTS-900-2 · 925 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A7120F (octal 51611017)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 6, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00098839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aero Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2040 Milligan Way Ste 200
Medford, OR 97504-6012
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N555AS, 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 Aero Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 6, 2018, 14 years after the 2004 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 53591 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N555AS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210 (serial 57146, cancelled April 22, 2013). 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 N555AS: Accident on August 7, 2023 at Cabazon, CA: fatal, substantial damage (3 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 407 · operated under PUBU
The Skycrane flight crew’s decision to enter the Fire Traffic Area’s 7-nm NOCOM ring at an altitude significantly above their maximum cleared altitude, which resulted in their need for an aggressive descent into congested airspace and subsequent failure to see and avoid the Bell 407.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23FA302 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