Bell 47G-2
N88AR is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1957. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Delray Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 1986 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 1, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2046
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1B8C (octal 53015614)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 1986
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 1, 1972
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00092051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lumley William B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7320 Skyline Dr
Delray Beach, FL 33446-2218
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 N88AR, 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 Lumley William B, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 1986, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 1, 1972, 15 years after the 1957 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 2046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88AR 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 N88AR: Accident on August 1, 1985 at Ochopee, FL: 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-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA85LA223 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
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