Bell 47G-2
N8403E is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1960. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 1994 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 29, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2257
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AB829F (octal 52701237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 3, 1994
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 29, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00523131
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Churchill Scott W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 92
Le Sueur, MN 56058
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 N8403E, 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 Churchill Scott W, an individual, certificate issued August 3, 1994, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 1973, 13 years after the 1960 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 2257 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8403E 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 N8403E: Accident on October 20, 1987 at Lapra, TX: 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-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW88LA008 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