Bell 47G-2
N440TG is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1959. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scotts Helicopter Service INC, a corporation in Lesueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2000 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2245
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A54C4D (octal 51246115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2000
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 14, 1969
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00172354
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 92
Lesueur, MN 56058
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 N440TG, 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 May 16, 2000, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 14, 1969, 10 years after the 1959 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 2245 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N440TG 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 N440TG: Accident on August 5, 2001 at Blooming Prairi, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 31, 1988 at Midland, MI: no 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-2 · operated under 137
The reported loss of engine power for undetermined reasons during a the cruise portion of a CFR part 137 observation, and the pilot not following the height/velocity charts data.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA259 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-2A · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88DEM05 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