Bell 47G
N10175 is a Bell 47G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Midland City, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 1989 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; amateur built, dated September 30, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G · all 47Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1272
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V 350 SERIES · 235 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A00BD6 (octal 50005726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 1989
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Amateur built · September 30, 1968
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00680160
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bassett Donald J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 170
Midland City, AL 36350-0170
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N10175, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bassett Donald J, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 1989, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 30, 1968, 14 years after the 1954 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1272 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N10175 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca C-2 (serial A-51, cancelled May 15, 1932). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N10175: Accident on August 10, 1987 at Dothan, AL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G (TOM CAT) · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL87LA229 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data