{"id":31501971,"date":"2026-11-06T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/bell-407-milestone-2000th-delivery-white-saddle-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:57:58","slug":"bell-407-milestone-2000th-delivery-white-saddle-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/bell-407-milestone-2000th-delivery-white-saddle-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell 407 Milestone: 2,000th Delivery Goes to White Saddle Air Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\r\n\r\n<style>\r\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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It carries a number no other Bell 407 can claim: it is the 2,000th one delivered.<\/p>\r\n<p>Bell Textron announced the milestone on 5 November 2026 from Fort Worth, Texas. The helicopter went to White Saddle Air Services, a family-owned and operated company based at Bluff Lake, near Tatla Lake. For a light single-engine helicopter that entered service in the 1990s and is still built at Bell's plant in Mirabel, Quebec, it is a landmark worth pausing over.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:18px 22px;margin:8px 0 28px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px;line-height:1.7\"><li><strong>Milestone:<\/strong> 2,000th Bell 407 delivered<\/li><li><strong>Announced:<\/strong> 5 November 2026, Fort Worth, Texas<\/li><li><strong>Customer:<\/strong> White Saddle Air Services, Bluff Lake, British Columbia<\/li><li><strong>Current model:<\/strong> Bell 407GXi (introduced 2018, Garmin G1000H NXi)<\/li><li><strong>Built at:<\/strong> Mirabel, Quebec, Canada<\/li><li><strong>Prototype first flight:<\/strong> 29 June 1995<\/li><li><strong>1,000th delivery:<\/strong> 15 June 2010<\/li><li><strong>Seating:<\/strong> 2 crew + 5 passengers (standard)<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two Thousand and Counting<\/h2>\r\n<p>The Bell 407 milestone caps nearly three decades of production. Bell handed over its 1,000th 407 on 15 June 2010, according to the type's production history, which means the second thousand took roughly sixteen years. The German aviation outlet aeroTELEGRAPH, reporting the delivery on 6 November, likewise named White Saddle as the customer and Mirabel as the type's home.<\/p>\r\n<p>Bell's own release, published on 5 November, pitches the 407 as a do-everything machine: public safety, emergency medical services, utility work, corporate transport and specialised missions. White Saddle's base, a remote lake in the BC interior, is the kind of place where a turbine single with a roomy cabin has to justify every flight hour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;The delivery of the 2000th Bell 407 is a tremendous milestone for Bell and for the global community of operators who have placed their confidence in this platform.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Danny Maldonado<\/strong> &mdash; President and CEO, Bell; Bell news release, 5 November 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Born From the LongRanger<\/h2>\r\n<p>The 407 started life in 1993 as Bell's New Light Aircraft programme, a replacement for the Model 206 family. Bell converted a 206L-3 LongRanger into a demonstrator, flew it in 1994 and unveiled the programme at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas in January 1995. The first true prototype, C-GFOS, flew on 29 June 1995, and a second followed on 13 July.<\/p>\r\n<p>The big change was overhead. Instead of the LongRanger's two-blade teetering rotor, the 407 took the four-blade, soft-in-plane rotor with a composite hub developed for the US Army's <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/oh-58-kiowa\/\">OH-58D Kiowa Warrior<\/a>. The fuselage grew 8 inches (20 cm) wider, the main cabin windows became 35% larger, and a more powerful Rolls-Royce\/Allison 250-C47 turboshaft lifted the maximum take-off weight and improved hot-and-high performance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fAJCZ4DLaVs\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:0 0 24px;font-style:italic\">Bell's own film on the Denver Police Department's 407GXi shows the public-safety role the type now fills.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Transport Canada certified the type on 9 February 1996, with the FAA following on 23 February. Bell handed over the first production 407 at Heli-Expo in Dallas that month, with Petroleum Helicopters International, Niagara Helicopters and Greenland Air as launch customers. Standard seating is two crew and five passengers.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From Analogue Gauges to Glass<\/h2>\r\n<p>The airframe has been refreshed repeatedly. Bell's release lists the 407GX and 407GXP as earlier evolutions before the 407GXi arrived in 2018 with the Garmin G1000H NXi integrated flight deck. Bell says the all-glass suite improves situational awareness and navigation and helps cut pilot workload.<\/p>\r\n<p>The photo Bell released with the announcement shows a White Saddle helicopter with BELL 407GXi lettered on its upper cowling. That is the configuration Bell now sells to everyone from air ambulance operators to police departments, and it is the one rolling out of Mirabel today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/bell-407-milestone-2000th-delivery-white-saddle-2026-img1.jpg\" alt=\"Bell 407GXi N280LB parked on a runway at sunrise with two people beside it\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Bell 407GXi (N280LB) on the ramp at sunrise, one of the press images Bell issued with the milestone release. The four-blade main rotor inherited from the OH-58D is clearly visible. Photo: Bell Textron Inc. (press release image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>There has been a military thread as well. The US Army's ARH-70 armed scout was based on the 407 before it was cancelled in October 2008, and Bell unveiled an armed 407GT in March 2013. Iraq flies armed IA-407s, and in September 2026 Washington approved a further sale of Bell 412s and 407Ms to Baghdad, which Afterburner covered at the time.<\/p>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why the Bell 407 Keeps Selling<\/h2>\r\n<p>A single engine and a big cabin have taken the 407 a long way. In 2007 Colin Bodill and Jennifer Murray completed a pole-to-pole flight around the world in a standard 407, covering about 36,000 miles (58,000 km) in 189 days and some 300 flight hours.<\/p>\r\n<p>Bell credits the type's performance, reliability, cabin comfort, visibility and operational flexibility for its staying power. Those are the qualities that matter when the landing site is a mountain ridge, a hospital pad or a gravel bar, and when one operator has to cover all three in a week.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/bell-407-milestone-2000th-delivery-white-saddle-2026-img2.jpg\" alt=\"Red Bell 407GXi helicopter flying beside a red sandstone canyon wall\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A red Bell 407GXi flying low past a sandstone cliff face, from Bell's milestone image set. Photo: Bell Textron Inc. (press release image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>The release also singles out the workforce at Mirabel, which Bell calls its commercial centre of excellence, and says the 407 will keep evolving through new technology and product improvements. With the 2,000th airframe now in Canadian hands, the next question is how long the line takes to reach the third thousand.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Sources: Bell Textron news release, aeroTELEGRAPH, Wikipedia (Bell 407)<\/em><\/p>\r\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\r\n\r\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Who received the 2,000th Bell 407?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The 2,000th Bell 407 went to White Saddle Air Services, a family-owned and operated helicopter company based at Bluff Lake, near Tatla Lake, in the Cariboo Chilcotin region of British Columbia, Canada. Bell announced the delivery on 5 November 2026, and the German outlet aeroTELEGRAPH also reported White Saddle as the customer.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When did Bell announce the 2,000th Bell 407 delivery?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Bell Textron announced the 2,000th Bell 407 delivery in a news release dated 5 November 2026 from Fort Worth, Texas. The milestone came nearly three decades after the type entered service in the 1990s and roughly sixteen years after Bell delivered the 1,000th Bell 407 on 15 June 2010.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where is the Bell 407 built?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Bell 407 is built at Bell's plant in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada, which the company describes as its commercial centre of excellence. Full production began there in 1996 after Transport Canada certified the type on 9 February 1996 and the FAA followed on 23 February 1996.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What was the Bell 407 developed from?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Bell 407 was developed from the Bell 206L LongRanger. It replaced the LongRanger's two-blade teetering rotor with a four-blade, soft-in-plane rotor and composite hub from the OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, added a fuselage 8 inches wider with larger cabin windows, and used a more powerful Rolls-Royce\/Allison 250-C47 turboshaft.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What is the Bell 407GXi?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Bell 407GXi is the current version of the Bell 407, introduced in 2018 after the earlier 407GX and 407GXP. Its main change is the Garmin G1000H NXi integrated all-glass flight deck, which Bell says improves situational awareness and navigation while helping to reduce pilot workload.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How many people does the Bell 407 carry?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Bell 407 has standard seating for two crew and five passengers. Bell markets the single-engine helicopter for public safety, emergency medical services, utility work, corporate transport and specialised missions, and a standard Bell 407 flew pole to pole around the world in 2007 with Colin Bodill and Jennifer Murray.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Who received the 2,000th Bell 407?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The 2,000th Bell 407 went to White Saddle Air Services, a family-owned and operated helicopter company based at Bluff Lake, near Tatla Lake, in the Cariboo Chilcotin region of British Columbia, Canada. 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