Bell 47G-2A
N9526 is a Bell 47G-2A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dorr, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2A · all 47G-2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1288-16
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-540 SERIES · 310 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AD3F3F (octal 53237477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00224612
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dykstra Donald J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1987 140Th Ave
Dorr, MI 49323-9547
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 N9526, 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 Dykstra Donald J, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1288-16 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9526 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]
2 NTSB records under N9526: Accident on August 20, 2017 at St Marys, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 11, 2009 at Covert, MI: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G · operated under 091
The student pilot's inadequate prefight planning and en route fuel management, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17LA285 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G-2A · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to fuel starvation as a result of blocked fuel vents.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA517 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