Bell 47G-2
N975BH is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Janesville, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 8, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2242
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- AD9659 (octal 53313131)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 8, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00151685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anderson Christopher T
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1971 Eastwood Ave
Janesville, WI 53545-2607 - Co-owners
- Anderson Matthew L
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 N975BH, 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 Anderson Christopher T, a co-owned, certificate issued September 25, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N975BH 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 N975BH: Accident on July 30, 2016 at Oshkosh, WI: 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 47G 2 · operated under 091
The loosening and separation of the throttle linkage nut, which resulted in a loss of throttle control and subsequent hard landing after autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN16LA294 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