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N73985

Bell 47G-3B-1

N73985 is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 3 seats. It is registered to City Of Los Angeles, a government body in Van Nuys, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47G-3B-1
Serial number
2894
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1963
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A9F008 (octal 52370010)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 28, 2012
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Other
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00462377

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
City Of Los Angeles
Type
Government
Address
C/O Los Angeles Fire Department
16617 Arminta St
Van Nuys, CA 91406-1611
Co-owners
Air Operations Section

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