Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407
N999GH is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation in Fillmore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 12, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada
- Model
- 407 · all 407s and related versions
- Serial number
- 53868
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C47B · 650 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- ADF4B0 (octal 53372260)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 12, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01006484
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Guardian Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 67 D St
Fillmore, CA 93015-1668
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N999GH, 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 Guardian Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 12, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 12, 2019, 11 years after the 2008 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 53868 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N999GH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 551 (serial 5510496, cancelled September 29, 1998). 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 N999GH: Accident on May 11, 2022 at Livermore, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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 133
Loss of engine power due to the pilot inadvertently selecting engine IDLE mode while in flight, which reduced rotor and engine speed to a level that could not sustain flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA174 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