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A Bell 47, the same model family as N6579D
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026
N6579D

Bell 47D1

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesLouisiana

N6579D is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Ixl INC, a corporation in Sulphur, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 18, 1964.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47D1 · all 47D1s 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
895
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 · Franklin 6VS-335 SER · 240 hp
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A8AA52 (octal 52125122)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 19, 2012
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 18, 1964
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00992776

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ixl INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
1900 N Beglis Pkwy
Sulphur, LA 70663-1538

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.

Connections how N6579D links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Franklin 6VS-335 series 25 aircraft with this engine series · 240 hp
  • Type certificate H-1 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6579D.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6579D, 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 Ixl INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 19, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 895 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6579D 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 N6579D. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data