Bell 47D1
N74120 is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1949. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Altamont, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- WH5005
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F8F8 (octal 52374370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 12, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00942437
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Slevin Mary Elizebeth
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 100 Whippet Ln
Altamont, NY 12009-5802
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 N74120, 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 Slevin Mary Elizebeth, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 12, 1975, 26 years after the 1949 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 WH5005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74120 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper L-4J (serial 13241, cancelled April 5, 1948). 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]
1 NTSB record under N74120: Accident on March 23, 2003 at Princetown, NY: minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47D · operated under 091
The student's failure to maintain control while executing a takeoff to a hover, and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action. A factor in the accident was the muddy ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC03LA069 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