Bell 47G-2
N8478D is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1957. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Friendswood, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2013 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 18, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1697
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AB9D4E (octal 52716516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2013
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 18, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00432891
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wood Denton A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2206 Butler Dr
Friendswood, TX 77546-5516
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 N8478D, 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 Wood Denton A, an individual, certificate issued June 20, 2013, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 18, 1980, 23 years after the 1957 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 1697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8478D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18A 150 (serial 18-6188, cancelled September 17, 1963). 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 N8478D: Accident on July 10, 2001 at Indianola, MS: 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 47 · operated under 137
The pilot's improper use of flight controls during an autorotation that resulted inn the collapse of the skids and cross tube assembly. A factor was the loss of engine power due to the failure of # 1 connecting rod and the overload failure of the skids and cross tub assembly.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL01LA075 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