Bell 47G-5A
N8135J is a Bell 47G-5A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. 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 standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 22, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-5A · all 47G-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 25060
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AB1791 (octal 52613621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 22, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00960232
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 N8135J, 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]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 22, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8135J 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]
1 NTSB record under N8135J: Accident on October 7, 1996 at King City, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-5A · operated under 137
the pilot's failure to maintain adequate rotor rpm during the takeoff initial climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA006 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