Bell 47G-5A
N2988W 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 an individual in Southwick, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 19, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-5A · all 47G-5As and related versions
- Serial number
- 25069
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A316B7 (octal 50613267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 19, 1977
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00060903
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scibelli Christopher S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 111 Foster Rd
Southwick, MA 01077-9574
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 N2988W, 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 Scibelli Christopher S, an individual, certificate issued February 16, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 19, 1977, 5 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 25069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2988W 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 N2988W: Accident on June 1, 1982 at New Philadelphi, OH: minor 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-5A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA198 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