Bell 47D1
N9115R is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1948. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Yuba City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 14, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 93
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6A4200 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AC9D79 (octal 53116571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 14, 1975
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00401081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Olson Robert L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 621 Wilson Rd
Yuba City, CA 95991-9539 - Co-owners
- Dunlop Janet N
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 N9115R, 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 Olson Robert L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 22, 1999, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 14, 1975, 27 years after the 1948 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 93 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9115R 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 N9115R: Accident on August 22, 1995 at Sidney, OH: 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 47D1 · operated under 091
the student pilot's abrupt touchdown while landing in a field. Related factors are the student pilot's failure to attain the proper descent rate during the approach to landing, and the flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the student.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO95LA084 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