Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N873ST is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2014. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Pennsylvania State Police, a government body in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 2, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 54500
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- AC031D (octal 53001435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 2, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01149786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pennsylvania State Police
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 171 E Hershey Park Dr
Hershey, PA 17033-9528 - Co-owners
- Bureau Of Emergency & Special Operations
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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 N873ST, 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 Pennsylvania State Police, a government body, certificate issued January 6, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 2, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54500 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N873ST 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 N873ST: Accident on August 19, 2026 at Carlisle, PA: fatal (1 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: Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 · operated under PUBU
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26FA309 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