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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Composite main rotor blades. This is how the Bell 407 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 53591
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Honeywell HTS-900-2 · 925 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A7120F (octal 51611017)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 6, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00098839
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aero Leasing INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N555AS links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 986 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Honeywell HTS-900-2 9 aircraft with this engine series · 925 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Aero Leasing INC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Medford, OR 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Rogue Valley Intl/Medford Airport · MFR
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 407 62 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 407 6,813 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 407 317 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N555AS.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data