Bell 47G-3B-1
N5NH is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Sky Horse Helicopters INC, a corporation in Brady, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 24, 2009 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 11, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-1 · all 47G-3B-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3825 (67-17118)
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A63672 (octal 51433162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 24, 2009
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 11, 1990
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00130855
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Horse Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1328
Brady, TX 76825-1328
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.
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The public federal record on N5NH, 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 Sky Horse Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 24, 2009, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 11, 1990, 23 years after the 1967 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 3825 (67-17118) for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5NH according to the deregistered file. [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 N5NH: Accident on October 12, 1991 at Catawissa, PA: minor 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 47G-3B-1 · operated under 091
PILOT FACTOR IN THAT THE PILOT USED POOR JUDGEMENT AND LOADED MORE PASSENGERS THAN WERE SEATS ON THE HELICOPTER THIS RESULTED IN CONTROL INTERFERENCE AND SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF CONTROL. CONTRIBUTING WAS THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO CHECK THE WEIGHT AND BALANCE FOR THE FLIGHT WHICH RESULTED IN FLIGHT OUTSIDE THE FORWARD LIMITS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC92LA006 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