Bell 47G-2A
N7878 is a Bell 47G-2A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Hendrickson Flg Svc INC, a corporation in Rochelle, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 1991 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 23, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2A · all 47G-2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 2707
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AAADF7 (octal 52526767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 1991
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · March 23, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00675000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hendrickson Flg Svc INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- RR 2
Rochelle, IL 61068
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7878, 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 Hendrickson Flg Svc INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 18, 1991, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 23, 1978, 16 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 2707 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7878 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bird A (serial 1000, cancelled February 9, 1933). 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 N7878: Accident on July 11, 2007 at Mercedes, TX: 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-2A · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the power transmission line.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW07CA156 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