Bell 47G-5A
N14861 is a Bell 47G-5A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Brown Helicopter INC, a corporation in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest, dated May 7, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-5A · all 47G-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 25089
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0C3AC (octal 50141654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest · May 7, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00880790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brown Helicopter INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10100 Aileron Ave
Pensacola, FL 32506-8223
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.
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The public federal record on N14861, 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 Brown Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 13, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 1997, 25 years after the 1972 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 25089 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N14861 according to the deregistered file. [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 N14861: Accident on August 11, 1988 at Biddeford, ME: 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 47G5 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88LA214 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