Bell 47G
N7985A is a Bell 47G, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1958. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Springtown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 22, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G · all 47Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1022
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AAD8C5 (octal 52554305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · February 22, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00425290
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Giles Forrest D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 152 Mcvoid Rd
Springtown, TX 76082-5929
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 N7985A, 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 Giles Forrest D, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 22, 1979, 21 years after the 1958 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 1022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7985A 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 N7985A: Accident on July 3, 2026 at Springtown, TX: serious 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 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA247 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