CareFlite
Holds an FAA charter and air-taxi certificate (Part 135) under the designator NXTA, overseen by the FAA office coded SW19. 8 aircraft are listed on the certificate, mostly BHT-407-407. Based in Grand Prairie, Texas, where it registers its own aircraft.
Website: careflite.org (found by search; tell us if it is wrong)
About CareFlite from its own website, read October 13, 2026
CareFlite is a nonprofit air ambulance and ground ambulance service established in 1979 serving North Texas and South Oklahoma. It operates seven helicopter bases, an airplane, and ground ambulance services across multiple counties in Texas, transporting over 1.2 million patients since its founding.
- Calls itself
- CareFlite
- What it is
- Air ambulance
- Bases
- Fort Worth, TX TEXAS HEALTH FORT WORTH HOSPITAL; Dallas, TX METHODIST DALLAS MEDICAL CENTER; Gainesville, TX NORTH TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER; Terrell, TX TERRELL MUNICIPAL AIRPORT; Whitney, TX; Burnet, TX BURNET MUNICIPAL AIRPORT; Granbury, TX GRANBURY REGIONAL AIRPORT; McKinney, TX MCKINNEY NATIONAL AIRPORT
- Aircraft it names
- Bell 429, Bell 407GX, Bell 407GXi
- Services
- helicopter ambulance, ground ambulance, wheelchair transport, inter-facility transport, emergency scene response
- Hours
- 24/7
- Founded
- 1979
- Address
- Irving, TX
- Telephone
- 1-800-442-6260
Written by the site from the pages of careflite.org on October 13, 2026; the company's own words and pictures stay on its site. Out of date or wrong? Tell us.
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In the air now from the volunteer receiver network
None of this operator's aircraft is in the air over the United States right now, as far as the network can hear. See them on the live map. Counted here: aircraft on the certificate and aircraft the company owns. No callsign is on file for this operator, so flights under another code are not counted. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Where the aircraft are in the air, on the ground, parked, or not heard lately · refreshed every half minute
None in the air, 8 not heard lately.
Positions from the volunteer receiver network: an aircraft is "parked" when it was last heard on the ground within 7 days (it may have moved under a hangar roof or flown with the transponder off); "not heard" means nothing has been received since the date shown. Aircraft whose owners asked the FAA not to be displayed are left out.
Connections how this operator links to the rest of the register
- Bell 407 5 on the certificate
- Bell 429 2 on the certificate
- Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 7 on the certificate
- Bell Textron Canada Ltd 1 on the certificate
- Grand Prairie, TX · where it registers its own aircraft
- Grand Prairie Municipal · GPM
- Texas 29,943 aircraft registered
- Careflite 7 aircraft in the fleet · the aircraft the FAA register lists under this name
- FAA charter and air-taxi certificate 8 aircraft listed · designator NXTA
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/operator/careflite.json.
Aircraft on the certificate 8 · grouped by the FAA's model shorthand
BHT-407-407 6
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N412CF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Careflite | 2016 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 12:44 am, last near Vultures Row Airport, in the air then |
| N413CF | Bell Textron Canada Ltd 407 | Careflite - Grand Prairie Grand Prairie, TX | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 2:38 pm, last near Airpark East, in the air then | |
| N416CF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Careflite | 2013 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 7:00 pm, last near Horseshoe Bend Airport, in the air then |
| N417CF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Careflite | 2013 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 7:39 pm, last near Grand Prairie Municipal, in the air then |
| N418CF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Careflite | 2013 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 6:42 am, last near Burnet Muni/Kate Craddock Field, in the air then |
| N419CF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 407 | Careflite | 2013 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 5:35 pm, in the air then |
BHT-429-429 2
| Tail no. | Maker and model | Registered owner | Year | Register | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N428CF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429 | Careflite | 2014 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 2:38 pm, last near Fort Worth Meacham International, in the air then |
| N429CF | Bell Helicopter Textron Canada 429 | Careflite | 2013 | ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codes | not heard not heard since today at 12:35 pm, in the air then |
Sources: the FAA's list of Part 135 and 121 certificate holders and the aircraft on each certificate, October 9, 2026; the FAA Civil Aviation Registry, October 29, 2026; the volunteer receiver network for what is in the air. An aircraft on a charter certificate is often owned by someone else and managed by the operator. Contact people named in the sources are not shown, the site's policy at this time. Is this your company? Claim or correct this listing: fix the base, add your website, send your own pictures. Add the "Listed on eFlight" badge to your website.