Bell 47G-3B
N73240 is a Bell 47G-3B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Emmett, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 9, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B · all 47G-3Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2772
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A9D576 (octal 52352566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 9, 1983
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00381797
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Britton John E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1008 Williams Rd
Emmett, ID 83617-3855
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 N73240, 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 Britton John E, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2772 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N73240 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 N73240: Accident on February 7, 1995 at China Lake, CA: 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-3B · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudgement of the clearance between the main rotor and a tree while maneuvering at low altitude to herd animals.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA100 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data