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A Bell 47, the same model family as N468HA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N468HA

Bell 47G-5

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N468HA is a Bell 47G-5, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Skotz Helicopter Services LLC, an LLC in Bertram, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 30, 2016.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47G-5 · all 47G-5s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open welded steel-tube frame with a plexiglass bubble. This is how the Bell 47 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
7870
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435-B1A · 265 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A5B803 (octal 51334003)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 13, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 30, 2016
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00865020

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skotz Helicopter Services LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1032 County Road 216
Bertram, TX 78605-3630

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N468HA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Lycoming VO-435-B1A 6 aircraft with this engine series · 265 hp
  • Type certificate 2H3 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
Owner
Place
  • Bertram, TX 27 aircraft registered in this town
  • Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N468HA, 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 Skotz Helicopter Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 13, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 30, 2016, 49 years after the 1967 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7870 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N468HA 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 N468HA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data