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Bell 47G-3B-1
N4077 is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Cavanaugh Flight Museum, a corporation in Denison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-1 · all 47G-3B-1s 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
- 3473
- 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 · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A4C9EF (octal 51144757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 28, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00473286
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cavanaugh Flight Museum
- 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
- 227 Woodruff Rd Ste 2
Denison, TX 75020-8652
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 N4077 links to the rest of the register
- Bell 47 478 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TVO-435-GIA 88 aircraft with this engine series · 280 hp
- Type certificate 2H3 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Cavanaugh Flight Museum 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Denison, TX 88 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 47 121 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 47 145 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 47 222 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TVO-435-GIA 10 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TVO-435-GIA 8 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4077.json.
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The public federal record on N4077, 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 Cavanaugh Flight Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 29, 2009, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 28, 1978, 13 years after the 1965 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 3473 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4077 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 N4077: Accident on July 9, 1996 at Beaver Marsh, OR: serious 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: Mooney M18LA · operated under 091
the loss of engine power for undetermined reason(s). A factor relating to the accident was: the presence of trees near the forced landing area.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data