The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
A Bell 47, the same model family as N59H
A Bell 47 like this one, not N59H itself. Photo: Peter Bakema, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons. Pictures of N59H itself may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N59H

Bell 47G-2

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMichigan

N59H is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1951. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC in Caledonia, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 19, 1977.

Where is it now checking the live feed…

Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…

Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.

Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map

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
325
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
1951
Cruising speed
78 mph
Transponder code
A79BBD (octal 51715675)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 17, 2016
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 19, 1977
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00911865

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aircraft Sales 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
9522 Tiger Lily Dr SE
Caledonia, MI 49316-7708

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.

Connections how N59H links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Caledonia, MI 38 aircraft registered in this town
  • Michigan 7,217 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N59H.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N59H, 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 Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 17, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 19, 1977, 26 years after the 1951 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 325 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N59H 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 N59H: Accident on July 29, 1984 at Jeffersonville, OH: 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

CHI84LA317Accident on July 29, 1984 at Jeffersonville, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47-G2 · operated under 137

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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