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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-1 · all 47G-3B-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3473
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A4C9EF (octal 51144757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 28, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00473286
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cavanaugh Flight Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96LA148 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