Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N801DS is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Pasco Sheriffs Office, a government body in New Port Richey, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 9, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53977
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- AAE5F0 (octal 52562760)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 9, 2009
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01037538
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pasco Sheriffs Office
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 8661 Citizens Dr
New Port Richey, FL 34654-5557
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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 N801DS, 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 Pasco Sheriffs Office, a government body, certificate issued July 28, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 9, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53977 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N801DS 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 N801DS: Accident on January 7, 2008 at Deland, FL: 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 407 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to the fatigue failure of a third stage turbine wheel blade.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC08LA077 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