Bell 407
N974H is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Hillcrest Aircraft CO INC, a corporation in Lewiston, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 12, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53329
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C47 · 600 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AD9330 (octal 53311460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2011
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 12, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00933896
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hillcrest Aircraft CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 540 Oconnor Rd
Lewiston, ID 83501-4531
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N974H, 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 Hillcrest Aircraft CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 26, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 12, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53329 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N974H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed VEGA 5B (serial 94, cancelled October 10, 1934). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N974H. 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 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