Bell 47D1
N132BR is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1951. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Renfrew, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 26, 1982. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 51-332
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V-335 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A082C8 (octal 50101310)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 26, 1982
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00160160
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Steinheiser Terry N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 230 Double Rd
Renfrew, PA 16053-9112
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 1
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The public federal record on N132BR, 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 Steinheiser Terry N, an individual, certificate issued August 19, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 26, 1982, 31 years after the 1951 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 51-332 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N132BR according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N132BR: Accident on October 31, 2021 at Zelienople, PA: 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 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA039 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