Bell 47G-5
N7885S is a Bell 47G-5, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Wilbur-Ellis CO, a corporation in Salinas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for carriage of cargo; patrolling; aerial advertising, dated April 18, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-5 · all 47G-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7873
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB156 (octal 52530526)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Carriage of cargo; Patrolling; Aerial advertising · April 18, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00365030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilbur-Ellis CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3650
Salinas, CA 93912-3650
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 N7885S, 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 Wilbur-Ellis CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2010, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 1996, 29 years after the 1967 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 7873 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7885S 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 N7885S: Accident on July 28, 2000 at King City, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 23, 1996 at Lost Hills, CA: 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-5 · operated under 137
The pilot's intentional flight into adverse weather which resulted in loss of visual reference and flight into power transmission wires and terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA280 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47-G5 · operated under 137
improper installation of the carburetor air box.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96LA287 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data