Bell 47D1
N184B is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1959. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Taz Air Service INC, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2006 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 6, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 45
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A14FA1 (octal 50247641)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2006
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · June 6, 1961
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00513213
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taz Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N184B, 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 Taz Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 15, 2006, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 6, 1961, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
This airframe (serial 45) previously flew as N59326. N59326 cancelled June 15, 2005. The conveyance sequence lives in the FAA aircraft records file. [2]
N184B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 47G (serial 1091, cancelled September 15, 1976); Bell 47D (serial 38, cancelled June 16, 1952). 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]
1 NTSB record under N59326: Accident on January 3, 1998 at Bunnell, FL: 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
the student pilot's improper planning/decision, which resulted in fuel exhaustion, loss of engine power, and a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA98LA051 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