Bell 47G-2
N47CS is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1958. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Tropicalproperties LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 18, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2255
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BF04 (octal 51337404)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 18, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00455062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tropicalproperties LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N47CS, 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 Tropicalproperties LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 13, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 1997, 39 years after the 1958 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 2255 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N47CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 (serial 0079, cancelled July 16, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N47CS: Accident on September 17, 1988 at W.Kingston, RI: 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: Robinson R-22 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88LA237 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