Bell 47D1
N9158R is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1960. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ahwahnee, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 27, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 455
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ACACBE (octal 53126276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 27, 1967
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00330951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haley Lee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 58444 Road 601
Ahwahnee, CA 93601-9702
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 N9158R, 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 Haley Lee, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 1967, 7 years after the 1960 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 455 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9158R 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]
2 NTSB records under N9158R: Accident on September 27, 2011 at Ahwahnee, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 20, 1984 at Alpena, MI: serious injuries, destroyed. 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
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate main rotor rpm during the landing approach, which resulted in a loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11LA469 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47D1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84LA184 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data