Bell 47G-2
N6140C is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1948. It has 3 seats. It is registered to North Coast Helicopter Service INC, a corporation in Napa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2005 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 22, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 47
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A7FFF5 (octal 51777765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2005
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · September 22, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00321256
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Coast Helicopter Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1632 Milton Rd
Napa, CA 94559-9772
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N6140C, 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 North Coast Helicopter Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 28, 2005, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 22, 1994, 46 years after the 1948 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 47 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6140C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-2 (serial EH 1, cancelled January 5, 1960). 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]
2 NTSB records under N6140C: Accident on March 7, 1987 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 7, 1983 at Anchorage, AK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC87FA043 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell B47G-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC83FA092 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