Bell 47G
N2473B is a Bell 47G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1955. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oakland, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 26, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G · all 47Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1450
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V 350 SERIES · 235 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A24CC3 (octal 50446303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 26, 1969
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00052762
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kerr Douglas E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13808 Campus Dr
Oakland, CA 94605-3830
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 N2473B, 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 Kerr Douglas E, an individual, certificate issued August 4, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 26, 1969, 14 years after the 1955 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 1450 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2473B 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 N2473B: Accident on July 2, 1993 at S. Sn Francisco, CA: fatal, destroyed (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 47G2-M · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PLANNING/PREPARATION WHICH RESULTED IN FLIGHT INTO HIGH WINDS, TURBULENCE AND WINDSHEAR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93FA272 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