Bell 47G-2
N444EH 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 Johafe Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 20, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2421
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A559E5 (octal 51254745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 20, 1991
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00085401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johafe Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 N444EH, 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 Johafe Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 10, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 20, 1991, 32 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 2421 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N444EH 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 N444EH: Accident on August 14, 2012 at Flandreau, SD: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-2 · operated under 091
A malfunction of the helicopter’s throttle system, which resulted in a loss of engine power during cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA557 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