Bell 407
N84BL is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Helicopters INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 5, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53291
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AB7DA4 (octal 52676644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 5, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00007281
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3422 Old Capitol Trl Ste 321
Wilmington, DE 19808
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N84BL, 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 Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 18, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 2024, 26 years after the 1998 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 53291 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N84BL was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC-6B (serial 43739, cancelled July 30, 2013); Bell 206B (serial 3206, cancelled date not given). 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 N84BL: Accident on May 5, 1990 at Guatemala City: fatal (3 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: Douglas DC-6B · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA90RA025 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