Bell 47G-5A
N25LB is a Bell 47G-5A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scotts Helicopter Services INC, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 1993 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 1, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-5A · all 47G-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 25102
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Allison 250 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A25621 (octal 50453041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 1993
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 1, 1990
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00042882
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 780 Elmwood Ave S
Le Sueur, MN 56058-2169
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 N25LB, 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 Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 4, 1993, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 1990, 18 years after the 1972 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 25102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N25LB 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]
2 NTSB records under N25LB: Accident on June 8, 2016 at Hastings, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 24, 2007 at Anoka, MN: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to attain a positive rate of climb during takeoff from a service truck, which resulted in an impact with terrain and substantial damage to the tail boom and fuselage.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA293 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-5A · operated under 137
The loss of helicopter pitch control for undetermined reasons during the aerial application maneuver and the pilot's inability to control the aircraft during the descent.. A contributing factor to the accident was the soft terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07LA277 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
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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