Bell 47G-3B
N8483E is a Bell 47G-3B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1961. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Danville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; other, dated July 19, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B · all 47G-3Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2650
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA057 (octal 52720127)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Other · July 19, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00052891
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Owens Jeffrey H
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 22650 N 1750 East Rd
Danville, IL 61834-7453 - Co-owners
- Owens Lynnette J
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 N8483E, 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 Owens Jeffrey H, a co-owned, certificate issued April 14, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 19, 1984, 23 years after the 1961 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 2650 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8483E 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 N8483E: Accident on September 15, 2005 at Summerville, TN: 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-3B · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate clearance and adequate visual lookout during take-off which resulted in an in-flight collision with a tree and roll over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL05CA161 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