Bell 47G-3B-1
N8554F is a Bell 47G-3B-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 February 26, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling, dated June 23, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-3B-1 · all 47G-3B-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 6508
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TVO-435-GIA · 280 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ABBCD5 (octal 52736325)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling · June 23, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00112681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scotts Helicopter Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 92
Le Sueur, MN 56058-0092
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 N8554F, 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 February 26, 2007, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 23, 1978, 12 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 6508 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8554F 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 N8554F: Accident on June 19, 2005 at Brewster, WA: 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-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent anti-torque pedal input, which resulted in a loss of control and collision with trees while hovering.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA05CA122 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