{"airworthiness_class":"","airworthiness_date":"","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"FORT WORTH","country_code":"US","county_code":"439","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2014-10-10","maker":"Bell Helicopter Textron Canada","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON CANADA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1182154","mode_s_code":"52161030","mode_s_hex":"A8E218","model":"407","n_number":"N6712L","name":"BELL TEXTRON INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LEWISTOWN","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-12-26","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DEN87FA037","probable_cause":"","registration":"N6712L","state":"MT","summary":"Accident on December 26, 1986 at Lewistown, MT: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N6712L is a Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 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  and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54523 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N6712L 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 N6712L: Accident on December 26, 1986 at Lewistown, MT: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"54523","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate","status_code":"M","status_short":"Valid (manufacturer)","street":"3255 BELL FLIGHT BLVD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"01153972","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N6712L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"761187630"}