N157B
Bell 47D1
Valid
California
N157B 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 an individual in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 22, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1
- Serial number
- 11
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0E449 (octal 50162111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 22, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00731860
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lewis Gerald K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5621 Gatlin St
Bakersfield, CA 93308-3901
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