{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1999-01-06","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2008-01-28","city":"O FALLON","country_code":"US","county_code":"183","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03029","engine_horsepower":600,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C47","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-01-17","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182206","mode_s_code":"51423147","mode_s_hex":"A62667","model":"407","n_number":"N496AE","name":"AIR EVAC EMS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"San Antonio","damage":"SUBS","date":"2015-11-03","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN16LA027","probable_cause":"The failure of the No. 3 tail rotor adapter and shaft due to a loss of torque on the retaining nut. Contributing to the accident was the lack of a requirement to inspect the tail rotor assembly for security in the helicopter manufacturer's maintenance manual and the operator's approved aircraft inspection program.","registration":"N496AE","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on November 3, 2015 at San Antonio, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N496AE is a Bell 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1999. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation in O Fallon, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 6, 1999.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Air Evac Ems INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 2008, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated January 6, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53328 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N496AE 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 N496AE: Accident on November 3, 2015 at San Antonio, TX: no 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":"Central","region_code":"3","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":7,"serial_number":"53328","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1001 BOARDWALK SPRINGS PL STE 250","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00683916","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N496AE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1999,"zip":"633684100"}