Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N62774 is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training, dated May 11, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 3:11 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- 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
- 53206
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A833A8 (octal 52031650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 2010
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; Crew trainingFAA certificate purpose code 15 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 11, 2026
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00456741
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron 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
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118-7630
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 N62774 links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 986 registered
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 732 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce 250-C47B 537 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Bell Textron INC 95 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 7, 2027
- Fort Worth, TX 1,880 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Worth Meacham International · FTW
- Fort Worth Spinks Airport · FWS
- Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport · AFW
- Bourland Field · 50F
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 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
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C47B 6 airworthiness directives
- Where N62774 is now · Last seen October 16 at 3:11 pm.
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The public federal record on N62774, 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 Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 25, 2010, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 11, 2026, 29 years after the 1997 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 53206 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N62774 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 277754013, cancelled March 7, 1995). 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 N62774: Accident on April 17, 1992 at Hamburg, PA: fatal, destroyed (4 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: Piper PA-23-250 · operated under 135
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT DECISION, HIS FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROPER IFR PROCEDURES, AND AN IMPROPERLY PLANNED APPROACH, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INFLIGHT COLLISION WITH RISING TERRAIN DURING THE EXECUTION OF THE MISSED APPROACH PROCEDURE. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE PILOT'S IMPROPER PREFLIGHT PLANNING AND PREPARATION.
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