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N257PC

Bell 47G-5A

Valid Florida

N257PC 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 Pinellas County, a government body in Clearwater, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 1983 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 21, 1972.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47G-5A · all 47G-5As and related versions
Serial number
25077
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A272C7 (octal 50471307)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 6, 1983
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
January 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 21, 1972
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00130790

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pinellas County
Type
Government
Address
4100 118Th Ave N
Clearwater, FL 33762-5133
Co-owners
Board Of County Commissioners

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N257PC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pinellas County, a government body, certificate issued April 6, 1983, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 21, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N257PC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N257PC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data