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N96GU

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407

N96GU is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Mg Aviation INC, a corporation in Santa Monica, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2013. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
Model
407 · all 407s and related versions
Serial number
54399
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
Seats
8
Year built
2013
Transponder code
AD5A76 (octal 53255166)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 9, 2013
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 6, 2013
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01118106

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mg Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
C/O Murphy & Kress
2401 Main St
Santa Monica, CA 90405-3515

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 1

2026-09-24Loan or lien (security agreement)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N96GU, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mg Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 9, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 6, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54399 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N96GU according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 24, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N96GU. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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