Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N617DE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 8 seats. It is registered to US Department Of Energy, a government body in Lakewood, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2009 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53867
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A8090F (octal 52004417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2009
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 8, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01009554
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- US Department Of Energy
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 12155 W Alameda Pkwy
Lakewood, CO 80228-2802 - Co-owners
- Western Area Power Administration
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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 N617DE, 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 US Department Of Energy, a government body, certificate issued August 12, 2009, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53867 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N617DE 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 N617DE: Accident on November 24, 1999 at Rifle, CO: no injuries, substantial 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: Bell 206 L-3 · operated under 091
a forced landing on rough, unsuitable terrain. A contributing factor was the partial loss of engine power, which resulted from improper maintenance by repair station personnel.
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 September 30, 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