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N44SG

Bell 47G-3B-1

Valid New York

N44SG 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 Staten Island Helicopters INC, a corporation in Staten Island, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 14, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47G-3B-1 · all 47G-3B-1s and related versions
Serial number
2945
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A549DB (octal 51244733)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 17, 1998
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 14, 1965
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00710577

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Staten Island Helicopters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
27 Greencroft Ln
Staten Island, NY 10308-3262

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1992-06-30Piper PA-31-350 · exported to Aruba · Valid registration
1980-11-12Beech 65-A80 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N44SG, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Staten Island Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 17, 1998, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 14, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2945 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N44SG was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 317652058, cancelled June 30, 1992); Beech 65-A80 (serial LD-198, cancelled November 12, 1980). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N44SG. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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