Bell 47G-3B
N73269 is a Bell 47G-3B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Goff, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 26, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B · all 47G-3Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2784
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- A9D5C5 (octal 52352705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 26, 1976
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00371807
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Costa James J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 26
Goff, KS 66428-0026
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 N73269, 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 Costa James J, an individual, certificate issued December 27, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 1976, 14 years after the 1962 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 2784 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N73269 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 N73269: Accident on May 19, 1986 at Red Bay, 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-3B · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86LA138 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