Bell 47D1
N917B is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1952. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Porterville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 24, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 606
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB0C5 (octal 53130305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 24, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00550941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quatacker Matt
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2122 Wildcat Way
Porterville, CA 93257-9807
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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 N917B, 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 Quatacker Matt, an individual, certificate issued January 21, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 24, 1980, 28 years after the 1952 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 606 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N917B 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 N917B: Accident on April 13, 1988 at Taft, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 5, 1987 at Taft, CA: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX88LA160 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47D-1 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX87LA294 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