Bell 47D1
N74823 is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1953. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 270
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AA12FC (octal 52411374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 18, 1966
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00002617
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tobler Hans P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4614 Lake Spenard Dr
Anchorage, AK 99517-2821
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.
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The public federal record on N74823, 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 Tobler Hans P, an individual, certificate issued November 14, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 1966, 13 years after the 1953 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 270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74823 according to the deregistered file. [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 N74823: Accident on January 1, 2021 at Marana, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 11, 2015 at Clanton, AL: 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 47D · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain helicopter control, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR21LA077 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47D1 · operated under 091
The student pilot's abrupt cyclic and collective inputs during the approach to land which resulted in abnormal runway contact and a subsequent tail boom strike by the main rotor blades.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA221 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