Built in 1966 and always registered N1310X, this Bell 47 is pictured in spayer configuration with Wilbur - Ellis Co.

Wilbur-Ellis Co. is a larger US agribusiness company that has 16 Bell 47s helicopters registered in California. Two aircraft are based at Salinas Airport and the rest of the fleet is based at Mesa Del Rey Airport (KIC) in King City, California, although not all the aircraft are active. They are probably the largest remaining Bell 47 fleet operator in the world. N4348P was previously registered HL6108

Wilbur-Ellis Co. is a larger US agribusiness company that has 16 Bell 47s helicopters registered in California. Two aircraft are based at Salinas Airport and the rest of the fleet is based at Mesa Del Rey Airport (KIC) in King City, California, although not all the aircraft are active. They are probably the largest remaining Bell 47 fleet operator in the world.

Wilbur-Ellis was formed in 1921 as a small import-export brokerage trading company. In the 1960s they made acquisitions of companies in the Pacific Northwest, California and Texas specializing in fertilizer and crop protection. In 2010 Soilserv Inc of Salinas, CA, with a substantial fleet of Bell-47 sprayers including this 1970 Bell 47-G5, was another of these companies acquired.