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Bell 47J-2A
N8552F is a Bell 47J-2A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bhh Leasing #4 LLC, an LLC in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47J-2A · all 47J-2As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open welded steel-tube frame with a plexiglass bubble. This is how the Bell 47 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 3705
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABBC8F (octal 52736217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 10, 1966
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00592671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bhh Leasing #4 LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 10100 Aileron Ave
Pensacola, FL 32506-8223
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8552F links to the rest of the register
- Bell 47 478 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming VO-540 series 110 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Type certificate 2H1 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Bhh Leasing #4 LLC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Pensacola, FL 507 aircraft registered in this town
- Pensacola International · PNS
- Roscoe Field · 82J
- Florida 21,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 47 121 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 47 145 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 47 222 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming VO-540 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming VO-540 series 1 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Gear, making metal · 1996-02-24
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8552F.json.
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The public federal record on N8552F, 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 Bhh Leasing #4 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 7, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3705 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8552F 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 N8552F. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data