Bell 47D1
N16356 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 Modern American Warrior INC, a corporation in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 11, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 536
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0FFF9 (octal 50177771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 11, 1967
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00772110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Modern American Warrior INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 25050 Pitkin Rd
Spring, TX 77386-1968
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 N16356, 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 Modern American Warrior INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 6, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 11, 1967, 16 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 536 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16356 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 N16356: Accident on November 10, 2005 at Rancho Murieta, CA: serious 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 separation of the tail rotor assembly due to the reverse bending fatigue fracture of a tail rotor pitch change link bolt, resulting in a loss of control of the helicopter, and a hard landing during the uncontrolled descent.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX06LA030 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