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N8489E

Bell 47J-2

N8489E is a Bell 47J-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Porterville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated June 25, 1970.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47J-2
Serial number
1846
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1961
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
ABA129 (octal 52720451)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 2014
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · June 25, 1970
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00972861

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Quatacker Mike
Type
Individual
Address
2122 Wildcat Way
Porterville, CA 93257-9807

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