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An IFR-certified platform with more than six million proven global flight hours, ready to handle your mission.

 

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1+6

Capacity

133

Speed

337

Range

Long Distance. Thrilling Ride.

Get to your destination, but enjoy the trip. Reach further locations with our wide aircraft range, designed to get you where you need to go.

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Hover Performance

Hover ceilings are at Max Gross Weight

13,550

In Ground Effect

11,940

Out of Ground Effect
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Bell 407

An IFR-certified platform with more than six million proven global flight hours, ready to handle your mission.
1+6
Capacity
133
Speed
337
Range
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Bell 407 M

As the world’s most cost-effective, multi-role helicopter, the Bell 407M offers a versatile aircraft ideal for tactical missions. The Bell 407M builds on the proven features from the OH-58 and its 750,000 combat flight hours by incorporating a modern weapons system and integrated glass cockpit.
1+6
Capacity
133
Speed
337
Range
407-features-3-aircraft-in-flight

Bell 407

An IFR-certified platform with more than six million proven global flight hours, ready to handle your mission.
1+6
Capacity
133
Speed
337
Range
Bell_407M_air_to_air_a

Bell 407 M

As the world’s most cost-effective, multi-role helicopter, the Bell 407M offers a versatile aircraft ideal for tactical missions. The Bell 407M builds on the proven features from the OH-58 and its 750,000 combat flight hours by incorporating a modern weapons system and integrated glass cockpit.
1+6
Capacity
133
Speed
337
Range
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Missions

Public Safety

Ready When Duty Calls

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Allowing parapublic passengers and pilots to maintain situational awareness and readiness. We know that no day is ever the same when you’re defending your community, fighting fires or completing a search and rescue mission.
Utility

Unrivaled Versatility

Need a lift? The Bell 407 carries a large external load with ease and offers complete accessibility to tricky locations. Designed to fit your needs and support your operations, it's the hauling tool to get any job done.
HEMS

Reliability & Stability

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Fly confident in this steady platform, built to land quickly and smoothly in unpredictable conditions. Load patients easily through the 407's bi-fold doors, saving time and lives.
Corporate

Uncompromising Comfort 

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When your mission is business, comfort boosts productivity. That's why this model has wide leather seats and plush carpeting that turns your flight into a boardroom.
Armed Multi-Role

Armed and Ready

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Proven and powerful. From the lineage of the OH-58, the Bell 407 is the most advanced light single multi-mission helicopter in service.

Training
Classroom in the Sky
Experience impeccable situation awareness in the 407's glass cockpit. A learning environment designed for insightful training, our cabin and modern avionics will help you master vertical flight.

Missions

Allowing parapublic passengers and pilots to maintain situational awareness and readiness. We know that no day is ever the same when you’re defending your community, fighting fires or completing a search and rescue mission.
Need a lift? The Bell 407 carries a large external load with ease and offers complete accessibility to tricky locations. Designed to fit your needs and support your operations, it's the hauling tool to get any job done.
Fly confident in this steady platform, built to land quickly and smoothly in unpredictable conditions. Load patients easily through the 407's bi-fold doors, saving time and lives.
When your mission is business, comfort boosts productivity. That's why this model has wide leather seats and plush carpeting that turns your flight into a boardroom.

Proven and powerful. From the lineage of the OH-58, the Bell 407 is the most advanced light single multi-mission helicopter in service.

Experience impeccable situation awareness in the 407's glass cockpit. A learning environment designed for insightful training, our cabin and modern avionics will help you master vertical flight.
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Features

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Precise Flight Pulselite ®

Reduce bird strikes and enhance external visibility of the aircraft while flying with Precise Flight Pulselite®. As a standard equipment feature in each new Bell 407 GXi and an aftermarket offering, the system alternately pulses landing and taxi lights to signal the aircraft’s presence to other air traffic and drive away birds.
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IFR Capable

Navigate the skies and complete critical missions despite low cloud ceilings. An accessible solution for getting your aircraft through cloudy weather to where it's needed.
Bell 407 Displays

High-tech Displays

View critical information as it’s coming in. With high resolution LED displays, readability and clarity is never a problem – even in direct sunlight. Newer, faster processors allow for quick, responsive information to prep the pilot for every scenario.
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Custom Cabin Space

Easy entry, swift loading and seating for six passengers. The widest cabin door in its class and more than 100 cubic feet of flexible passenger space. Move comfortably, anywhere you’re needed.
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Power You Can Count On

Built for power, prepared for anything. With our Rolls Royce engine, dual-channel FADEC and auto light features, take full comfort knowing you have the best tools to get you where you’re going.
Bell 407 Low Cost of Ownership

Low Cost of Ownership

Get composite rotor blades without a life limit. Know what’s happening, inside and out, with Health and Usage Monitoring. Our real-time maintenance updates keep you in the air at an unbeatable cost.

Specifications

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Performance
  • Hover Ceiling IGE
    13,550ft
  • Hover Ceiling OGE
    11,940ft
  • Max Cruise
    133 kts | 246 km/h
  • Range at VLRC
    337 nm | 624 km
  • Max Endurance
    4.0 hrs
*Std Max GW, ISA, Std. fuel - no reserve, at sea level
Capacities
  • Standard Seating
    1+6
  • Standard Fuel
    127.8 US gal / 482.8 liters
  • Aux Fuel
    19 US gal / 71.9 liters
  • Cabin Volume**
    85ft3
  • Aft Baggage Compartment Volume
    16 ft3 / 0.5 m3
  • Empty Weight - (Base 407GXi Aircraft)
    2,700 lbs / 1,224 kg
  • Max Gross Weight (Internal, Standard)
    5,000 lbs / 2,268 kg
  • Max Gross Weight Internal - Optional
    5,250lb / 2,381 kg
  • Max Gross Weight (External Load)
    6,000 lbs / 2,722 kg
  • Useful Load - Internal -Standard - Base 407GXi -Specification
    2,300 lbs / 1,043 kg
  • Useful Load (Internal, Optional, Base 407GXi)
    2,550 lbs / 1,156 kg
  • Cargo Hook Capacity
    3,100 lbs / 1,406 kg
Powerplant
  • Takeoff
    862 SHP / 643 kW
  • Max Continuous
    761 SHP / 567 kW
Rolls-Royce Model 250-C47E/4 turboshaft engine with dual digital FADEC.
Avionics

Enhanced pilot awareness with the GARMIN G1000H® NXi integrated Flight Deck with synthetic vision and terrain avoidance warning

 

  • Wireless connectivity with Flight Stream 510 allows pilots to quickly sync flight plans and upload databases from smart devices
  • Moving map can be displayed on HSI freeing up the MFD for flight planning and other uses
  • Multi-Pane MFD capability for pilot selectable display of 2 simultaneous page views on the MFD
  • Power Situation Indicator (Single Indicator for Quick Pilot Monitoring)
  • Fuel Flow Indication and Range Ring mapping
  • Tail Rotor Camera (Display on MFD)
  • Additional features and options include: WireAware, ADS-B out and in, Radar Altimeter, TAS/TCAS I Traffic, and XM Weather

     

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The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. Photo credits: Airman 1st Class Drew Cyburt, Skip Robinson, Petty Officer 3rd Class Aaron Smith,  Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron T. Smith and Lance Cpl. Elias Pimentel