{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2016-03-11","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-28","city":"NORTH SALT LAKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"013","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":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-28","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182154","mode_s_code":"51425036","mode_s_hex":"A62A1E","model":"407","n_number":"N497AE","name":"TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Las Cruces","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-09-28","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"DEN04LA149","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during takeoff resulting in the helicopter's skid striking the helipad and the helicopter's subsequent rollover.  Factors contributing to the accident were the pilot's improper preflight planning/decision, his failure to use the helicopter's landing/taxi lights and searchlight, the bright night, and the pilots diminished ability to see visual references.","registration":"N497AE","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on September 28, 2004 at Las Cruces, NM: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N497AE is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation in North Salt Lake, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 11, 2016.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tvpx Aircraft Solutions INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued July 28, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated March 11, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54687 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N497AE 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 N497AE: Accident on September 28, 2004 at Las Cruces, NM: 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":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"54687","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"39 E RIDGE DR STE 201","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01209668","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N497AE","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2016,"zip":"84054"}