Bell 407

what is it?

The Bell 407 is a four-blade, single-engine, civil utility helicopter. A derivative of the Bell 206L-4 LongRanger, the 407 uses the four-blade, soft-in-plane design rotor with composite hub developed for the United States Army's OH-58D Kiowa Warrior instead of the two-blade, semi-rigid, teetering rotor of the 206L-4.

🔎How to recognise it: 1 turboshaft engine · 10.7 m main rotor

base stats

• speed 259 km/htop speed
• range 600 kmwithout refuelling
• size 2,722 kgmax take-off weight
• built 1,600made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🎂First flew 31 years ago, in 1995.
• 🏎️Top speed is 2.0× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Rotor of 10.7 m: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.

turboshaft: A turbine that turns a shaft, usually a helicopter rotor.

spec sheet

first flight

1995-06-29

introduced

1996

status

still flying

number built

1,600

role

multipurpose utility helicopter

origin

🇨🇦 Canada

makers

Bell Textron

engines

1× Allison 250-C47B

length

12.7 m

rotor diameter

10.7 m

height

3.6 m

max take-off weight

2,722 kg

top speed

259 km/h

cruise speed

246 km/h

range

600 km

ceiling

5,697 m

Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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