Bell 407
N56AZ is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to State Of Arizona Department Of Public Safety, a government body in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 30, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53616
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A724A9 (octal 51622251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 30, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00130719
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- State Of Arizona Department Of Public Safety
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Aviation Section
2615 E Airlane
Phoenix, AZ 85034
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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 N56AZ, 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 State Of Arizona Department Of Public Safety, a government body, certificate issued December 2, 2004, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 30, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53616 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56AZ 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 N56AZ: Accident on February 5, 2026 at Flagstaff, AZ: fatal, destroyed (2 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
On February 4, 2026, at 2216 mountain standard time, a Bell 407 helicopter, N56AZ, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Flagstaff, Arizona. The pilot and tactical flight officer (TFO) were fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 public use flight. The pilot and TFO began their 24-hour shift at 0800 on the day of the accident. They completed a previous flight to rescue hikers and returned to their base in Kingman about 2005. They subsequently received a request for a mission flight in Flagstaff involving an ac…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data