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Bell 47G-3B
N603BD is a Bell 47G-3B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 6, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 12, 1974.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B · all 47G-3Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA 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
- 3245
- 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 0-435 · 175 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A7D281 (octal 51751201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 6, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- 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 · September 12, 1974
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00980946
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Churchill Scott
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 92
Le Sueur, MN 56058-0092
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N603BD links to the rest of the register
- Bell 47 478 registered
- Bell 3,080 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-435 88 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Type certificate 2H3 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Le Sueur, MN 83 aircraft registered in this town
- LE Sueur Municipal · 12Y
- Minnesota 6,946 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 47 121 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 47 145 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 47 222 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435 4 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N603BD, 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 Churchill Scott, an individual, certificate issued January 6, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 12, 1974, 9 years after the 1965 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 3245 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N603BD 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N603BD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data