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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Bell-Carson 47G-SUPER C-4
N866Z is a Bell-Carson 47G-SUPER C-4, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hickory, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 6, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell-Carson
- Model
- 47G-SUPER C-4 · all 47G-SUPER C-4s 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-Carson 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
- C-5006
- 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-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE760 (octal 52763540)
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 29, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 6, 1993
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00142421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plane Crazy Aviation LLC
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5835 Walnut Grove Ln
Hickory, NC 28602-8817 - Co-owners
- Skywagons.Com LLC
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N866Z links to the rest of the register
- Bell-Carson 47 5 registered
- Bell-Carson 5 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-435 series 191 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Hickory, NC 80 aircraft registered in this town
- Hickory Regional · HKY
- Wilson'S Airport · E40
- North Carolina 7,122 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming VO-435 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming VO-435 series 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N866Z, 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 Plane Crazy Aviation LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued August 29, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 6, 1993, 31 years after the 1962 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 C-5006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N866Z 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 N866Z: Accident on October 25, 1993 at Billingsley, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 47G2 · operated under 137
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER VERTICAL LIFTOFF WHICH RESULTED IN DYNAMIC ROLL-OVER AND THE MAIN ROTOR'S IMPACT WITH THE GROUND.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data