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Bell 47G-4A
N7162M is a Bell 47G-4A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Fast Toys for Boys INC, a corporation in Wenatchee, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 17, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-4A · all 47G-4As 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
- 7569
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A99501 (octal 52312401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 29, 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 · June 17, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00845141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fast Toys for Boys INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2600 Chester Kimm Rd
Wenatchee, WA 98801-8116
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
Connections how N7162M links to the rest of the register
- Bell 47 478 registered
- Bell 3,081 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 VO-540 series 110 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Type certificate 2H3 · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Fast Toys for Boys INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wenatchee, WA 64 aircraft registered in this town
- Pangborn Memorial · EAT
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Bell 47 46 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Bell 47 145 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell 47 194 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming VO-540 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming VO-540 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N7162M, 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 Fast Toys for Boys INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 28, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 17, 1998, 31 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 7569 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7162M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 175 (serial 55462, cancelled November 16, 1967). 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 N7162M: Accident on August 23, 1998 at Carrollton, AL: 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 47G-4A · operated under 137
The pilots failure to follow written instructions in the flight manual for an engine failure, and the improper use of flight controls (cyclic/collective) during an autorotation resulting in a hard landing, and collision of the main rotor blades with the tailboom assembly. Contributing to the accident was the improper installation of circlips on the counterweight assembly during an engine overhaul. This resulted in a subsequent total failure of the number 5 connecting rod.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data