I never worked with Bell machines and wished I did.
Took damn near several years before the 427 was IFR configured. And still didnt clinch any real sales barring White Eagle Aviation in Poland, and as Alfa Helikopter in Czech and Shim-ir in Israel or whatever its called.
I have seen the Chevron 430 with skids and blue and slight red paint job.
The 427 has in effect morphed into the 429.
The 407 is a great machine, dont know what happened with the 417?
Guess the 407 was toooooooooo popular
430 was an strange one ...maybe they should have kept the 222 production going and not gone to 230....dont know.