Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407
N973MF is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Mercy Flights INC, a corporation in Medford, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2021.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Mercy Flights Inc, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 12:13 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. Composite main rotor blades. This is how the Bell 407 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 54944
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47E/4 · 600 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- AD8FE3 (octal 53307743)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 19, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01343452
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mercy Flights INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2020 Milligan Way
Medford, OR 97504-5894
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.
Connections how N973MF links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 984 registered
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 435 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Mercy Flights Inc · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C47E/4 182 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Type certificate H2SW · held by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada LTD
- Mercy Flights INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Medford, OR 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Rogue Valley Intl/Medford Airport · MFR
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 407 62 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 407 6,813 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 407 317 supplemental type certificates
- Where N973MF is now · Last seen Monday at 12:13 pm.
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The public federal record on N973MF, 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 Mercy Flights INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 28, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 19, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54944 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N973MF 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N973MF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data