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A Bell 47, the same model family as N5990
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N5990

Bell 47G-2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota

N5990 is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Aaa Aerial Solutions LLC, an LLC in Dassel, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 30, 1996.

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Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open welded steel-tube frame with a plexiglass bubble. This is how the Bell 47 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
2396
Type
RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A7C12E (octal 51740456)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 23, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 23, 2024
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 30, 1996
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00922065

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aaa Aerial Solutions LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
70050 173Rd St
Dassel, MN 55325-7527

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N5990 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Dassel, MN 4 aircraft registered in this town
  • Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N5990, 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 Aaa Aerial Solutions LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2396 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5990 according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5990: Accident on May 6, 2019 at Denton, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

GAA19CA250Accident on May 6, 2019 at Denton, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G · operated under 091

The flight instructor's improper decision to instruct the student pilot to establish a hover and reposition the helicopter with a tailwind, which resulted in the student pilot's loss of pitch control.

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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data