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N12888

Bell 47D

N12888 is a Bell 47D, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 1998 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 6, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47D
Serial number
20
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1947
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A074FB (octal 50072373)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 6, 1998
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 6, 1966
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00710690

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Suess Robert D
Type
Individual
Address
1876 Crewe Ct
San Jose, CA 95132-1811

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

1948-10-14Stinson JR. R · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data