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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47D1 · all 47D1s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open welded steel-tube frame with a plexiglass bubble. This is how the Bell 47 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 7
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D56D (octal 50152555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · April 28, 1964
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00571850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Service
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N153B links to the rest of the register
- Bell 47 478 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Franklin 6V4 series 84 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Type certificate H-1 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Scotts Helicopter Service 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Le Sueur, MN 83 aircraft registered in this town
- LE Sueur Municipal · 12Y
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 47 46 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 47 145 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 47 194 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N153B.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data