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A Bell 407, the same model family as N99AM
A Bell 407 like this one, not N99AM itself. Photo: Robert Kowal, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N99AM itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N99AM

Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N99AM is a Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 8 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).

Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 2:23 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell Textron Canada Ltd
Model
407 · all 407s and related versions
Built of
aluminium with composite parts
A 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
56494
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
Seats
8
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ADD056 (octal 53350126)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 23, 2026
Expires
March 31, 2033
Last FAA action
March 23, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01545399

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bell Textron 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
3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118

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 2

2026-10-22Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-10-23Loan or lien (security agreement)

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-05-31Bellanca 8KCAB · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N99AM links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
  • Bell Textron INC 95 aircraft in the fleet
  • Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 7, 2027
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N99AM.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N99AM, 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 Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 23, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56494 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N99AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 8KCAB (serial 29877, cancelled May 31, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 23, 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 N99AM. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data