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Multipurpose utility helicopter
Bell 427 is a multipurpose utility helicopter originating in United States/Canada/South Korea. It was built by Bell Helicopter Samsung Aerospace Industries (later part of Korea Aerospace Industries ). Reported operators include Argentina, Czech Republic, Paraguay.
United States/Canada/South KoreaMultipurpose utility helicopter
United States/Canada/South Korea
Bell Helicopter Samsung Aerospace Industries (later part of Korea Aerospace Industries )
In service
1997–2010
2000
11 December 1997
Bell 407
Bell 429 GlobalRanger
2
7 passengers / 2,960 lb (1,343 kg) internal load
37 ft 6 in (11.43 m)
10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) with standard skids
3,881 lb (1,760 kg)
6,550 lb (2,971 kg)
2 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PW207D turboshaft engines, 710 shp (530 kW) each
37 ft 0 in (11.28 m)
1,075 sq ft (99.9 m 2 )
- root: Boeing VR-7; tip: Narramore 8%
140 kn (160 mph, 260 km/h)
138 kn (159 mph, 256 km/h)
394 nmi (453 mi, 730 km)
10,000 ft (3,000 m)
2,000 ft/min (10 m/s)
Argentina Entre Rios Police
Czech Republic Czech HEMS – Alfa Helicopter
Paraguay Paraguayan Air Force
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True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Bell 427 equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
Argentina
Czechia
ParaguayAir Force exact named equipment holdings: Bell 427 (VIP). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: HELICOPTERS / Light. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Air Force exact named equipment holdings of Bell 427 (VIP). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only, not a national or parent-force total or combat-readiness measure. Source role(s): HELICOPTERS / Light. No heading aggregate, carried armament, crew, payload, factory production or future order count inherited. Source parentheses retain employment, lease, reporting designation, alternate model, or included-subset scopes exactly. Own fetched primary and alternate/model identity declarations are retained. Numbers inside an included subset are part of the printed count and are never added again; no sibling or parent specification is copied.
Reported count for Bell 427 · B427. Service scope: Paraguayan Air Force; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 1. Origin: United States. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.