Bell 47D1
N903B is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tulare, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated February 1, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 847
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7A6A (octal 53075152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 17, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · February 1, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00481321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Costa James J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18250 Road 152
Tulare, CA 93274-9565
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N903B, 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 Costa James J, an individual, certificate issued June 17, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 1, 1965, 11 years after the 1954 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 847 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N903B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Temco TE-1A (serial 6005, cancelled May 10, 1950). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N903B: Accident on October 31, 2004 at San Martin, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 4, 1988 at Ruleville, MS: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47D1 · operated under 091
A loss of power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05LA022 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47D1 · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA88LA212 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