Bell 47G-3B-2
N1461W is a Bell 47G-3B-2, a rotorcraft with turboprop engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1969. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Skyhawk Helicopter Service INC, a corporation in Minersville, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 1979 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated June 25, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-2 · all 47G-3B-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6733
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0BB8A (octal 50135612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 1979
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Forest · June 25, 1973
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00341760
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skyhawk Helicopter Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 219
Minersville, UT 84752-0219
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.
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The public federal record on N1461W, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Skyhawk Helicopter Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 23, 1979, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 25, 1973, 4 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6733 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1461W according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1461W: Accident on January 14, 1998 at Spanish Fork, UT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-3B-2 · operated under 091
A total loss of power due to repeated engine overspeeds. A related factor was unsuitable terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data