Bell 47G-2A-1
N8542D is a Bell 47G-2A-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scotts Helicopter Services INC, a corporation in Le Sueur, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 1994 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 16, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2A-1 · all 47G-2A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3546
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABB8D6 (octal 52734326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 1994
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 16, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00382701
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8542D, 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 Scotts Helicopter Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 10, 1994, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 16, 1981, 15 years after the 1966 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 3546 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8542D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-160 (serial 22-5773, cancelled October 7, 1971). 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 N8542D: Accident on June 11, 2002 at Jordan, MN: 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-1 · operated under 137
The loss of engine power due to improper maintenance by unknown maintenance personnel which led to a misalignment of the gearbox casing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA163 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