Bell 47J-2
N8489E is a Bell 47J-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Porterville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated June 25, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47J-2 · all 47J-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1846
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA129 (octal 52720451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · June 25, 1970
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00972861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quatacker Mike
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2122 Wildcat Way
Porterville, CA 93257-9807
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 N8489E, 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 Quatacker Mike, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 25, 1970, 9 years after the 1961 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 1846 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8489E 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8489E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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