Bell 47D1
N153B 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 Scotts Helicopter Service, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 28, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D56D (octal 50152555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 28, 1964
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00571850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Service
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 92
Le Sueur, MN 56058-0092
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 N153B, 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 Scotts Helicopter Service, a corporation, certificate issued June 15, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 28, 1964, 17 years after the 1947 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 7 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N153B 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 N153B: Accident on July 6, 2017 at Big Lake, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 47D1 · operated under 137
The failure of the metal core assembly within a wooden main rotor blade due to undetected corrosion and fatigue, which caused the wooden blade to separate from the rotor mast.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN17LA264 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data