{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2013-08-06","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-12-09","city":"GREENWOOD VILLAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54585","engine_horsepower":650,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C47B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-12-16","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182154","mode_s_code":"51271050","mode_s_hex":"A57228","model":"407","n_number":"N450AM","name":"AIR METHODS LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Union Center","damage":"SUBS","date":"2019-03-03","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"CEN19LA092","probable_cause":"The ambulance driver\u2019s failure to see the helicopter\u2019s rotating main rotor blades in dark night conditions, which resulted in the ambulance\u2019s inadvertent collision with the helicopter. Contributing to the accident was the ambulance driver's failure to follow procedures when approaching the helicopter.","registration":"N450AM","state":"SD","summary":"Accident on March 3, 2019 at Union Center, SD: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N450AM 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 Air Methods LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Methods LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54435 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N450AM according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N450AM: Accident on March 3, 2019 at Union Center, SD: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"54435","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5500 S QUEBEC ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01128368","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N450AM","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2013,"zip":"801111914"}