Bell 407
N687AM is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2007 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 18, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53497
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A91D44 (octal 52216504)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2007
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- December 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 18, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00643954
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Methods LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5500 S Quebec St Ste 300
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-1914
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.
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The public federal record on N687AM, 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 1, 2007, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 18, 2016, 15 years after the 2001 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 53497 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N687AM 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 N687AM: Accident on September 4, 2022 at Mount Baldy, CA: serious 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 407 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to ensure the throttle was properly positioned before commencing an approach to land, which resulted in a low rotor rpm condition and impact with terrain. Contributing to the accident was a worn throttle detent.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA333 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data