Bell 47G-3B-2
N2918W is a Bell 47G-3B-2, a rotorcraft with turboprop engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scotts Helicopter Service INC, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-2 · all 47G-3B-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6822
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A2FCB6 (octal 50576266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2012
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 15, 1971
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00300683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 92
Le Sueur, MN 56058-0092
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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 N2918W, 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 INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 8, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 15, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6822 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2918W 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 N2918W: Accident on February 1, 1989 at Strathmore, CA: serious injuries, destroyed. 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-3B2 · operated under 137
IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS BY THE PILOT, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CLEARANCE FROM THE SERVICE TRUCK. FACTORS RELATING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE UNFAVORABLE (VARIABLE) AND GUSTY WIND CONDITIONS AND CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE SERVICE VEHICLE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89DVA03 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