Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N618DE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 8 seats. It is registered to U S Department Of Energy, a government body in Lakewood, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 29, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 16, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53798
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A80CC6 (octal 52006306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 29, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 16, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00423559
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- U S 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 N618DE, 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 U S Department Of Energy, a government body, certificate issued November 29, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 16, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53798 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N618DE 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 N618DE: Accident on April 23, 1997 at Trinidad, CO: minor 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-L1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter due to a loss of tail rotor effectiveness. A factor was the tailwind condition and the pilot's failure to maintain proper airspeed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97TA165 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
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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