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Bell 47G-3B-1
N153A is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Farwest Aviation LLC, an LLC in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-1 · all 47G-3B-1s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA 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
- 3550
- 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 TVO-435-B1A · 270 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D554 (octal 50152524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 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 · December 14, 2021
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00172082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Farwest Aviation 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
- 6309 Jellison Rd
Billings, MT 59101-9306
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 2
Connections how N153A links to the rest of the register
- Bell 47 478 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TVO-435-B1A 2 aircraft with this engine series · 270 hp
- Type certificate 2H3 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Farwest Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Billings, MT 344 aircraft registered in this town
- Billings Logan International · BIL
- Montana 6,037 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 47 46 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 47 145 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 47 194 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TVO-435-B1A 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TVO-435-B1A 24 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N153A.json.
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The public federal record on N153A, 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 Farwest Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 15, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 14, 2021, 55 years after the 1966 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 3550 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N153A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aspegren Robert BANDIT PRO (serial 103, cancelled April 30, 2013); Douglas DC3C (serial 9392, cancelled November 20, 1967). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N153A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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