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N140B

Bell 47D1

Valid Iowa

N140B is a Bell 47D1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1947. It has 3 seats. It is registered to L Bachman LLC, an LLC in Independence, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 19, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47D1
Serial number
60
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V 350 SERIES · 235 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1947
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A0A2C9 (octal 50121311)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 24, 2022
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 19, 1992
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00651620

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
L Bachman LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1111 4Th Ave NE
Independence, IA 50644-1203

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.

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