Bell 47D1
N74124 is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Georgetown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- WH-5009
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F8FC (octal 52374374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 1963
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00292427
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowles Alan B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 501 Wilbur Wright Dr
Georgetown, TX 78626-2297
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N74124, 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 Bowles Alan B, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial WH-5009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74124 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 12788, cancelled February 21, 1950). 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 N74124: Accident on December 2, 1988 at Allen, TX: serious 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 47-D1 · operated under 091
UNQUALIFIED PILOT'S POOR JUDGEMENT IN LEVELING THE HELICOPTER DURING THE FLARE AND CONTRIBUTING TO THIS WAS HIS LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE IN THIS TYPE AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW89DPA03 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