Bell 47G-3B-1
N4990H is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1964. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scotts Helicopter Services, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 1993 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-1 · all 47G-3B-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2942
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A633E7 (octal 51431747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 1993
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 16, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00260805
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Services
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 780 Elmwood Ave S
Le Sueur, MN 56058-2169
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 N4990H, 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 Services, a corporation, certificate issued January 4, 1993, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 16, 1983, 19 years after the 1964 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 2942 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4990H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-885, cancelled June 29, 1970). 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 N4990H: Accident on July 31, 1990 at Coon Rapids, MN: 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 47G3B1 · operated under 137
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S INACCURATE FUEL CONSUMPTION CALCULATIONS AND MISJUDGEMENT OF HIS FUEL SUPPLY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI90DER03 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