Bell 47D1
N12087 is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 16, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 734
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4200 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A05742 (octal 50053502)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 16, 1972
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00100350
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 Air Museum Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9800
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N12087, 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 Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 13, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 734 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12087 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mead Gliders MEAD RR-1 (serial G-1200, cancelled September 15, 1938). 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 N12087: Accident on July 11, 1988 at Stockbridge, MI: no 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 47D1 (OH-13E) · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88DEC05 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