Bell 47D1
N160B is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1947. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wayne, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 30, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 14
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F1C7 (octal 50170707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 30, 1970
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00511930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- James David R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1007
Wayne, MI 48184-4007
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 N160B, 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 James David R, an individual, certificate issued May 10, 2006, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 30, 1970, 23 years after the 1947 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 14 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N160B 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N160B. 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 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