Bell 47G-5
N4096G is a Bell 47G-5, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Wilbur-Ellis CO, a corporation in Salinas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying, dated June 19, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-5 · all 47G-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7906
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A4D141 (octal 51150501)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying · June 19, 1969
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00611314
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilbur-Ellis CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3650
Salinas, CA 93912-3650
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 N4096G, 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 Wilbur-Ellis CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2010, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying, dated June 19, 1969, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7906 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4096G 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 N4096G: Accident on August 29, 1984 at Watsonville, CA: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-5 · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX84LA464 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data