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A Bell 47, the same model family as N130V
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N130V

Bell 47G-2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWyoming

N130V is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1958. It has 3 seats. It is registered to J Bird Air Service LLC, an LLC in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 2, 1958.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open welded steel-tube frame with a plexiglass bubble. This is how the Bell 47 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
2230
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1958
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A07D0C (octal 50076414)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 19, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
September 18, 2025
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 2, 1958
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00870740

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
J Bird Air Service LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2735 Continental Rd
Cheyenne, WY 82009-8500

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

1933-03-06Cessna Aircraft Co CG-2 · Valid registration

Connections how N130V links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N130V, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to J Bird Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 19, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 2, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2230 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N130V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna Aircraft Co CG-2 (serial 74, cancelled March 6, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N130V: Accident on May 21, 1982 at Santa Maria, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX82DA186Accident on May 21, 1982 at Santa Maria, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G2 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data