Bell 47G-2
N984B is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1955. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Janesville, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2010 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated November 18, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- 47G-2 · all 47G-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1382
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 78 mph
- Transponder code
- ADBA19 (octal 53335031)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2010
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · November 18, 1959
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00823710
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freeman James P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2515 Lucerne Dr
Janesville, WI 53545-0576
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 N984B, 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 Freeman James P, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2010, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 18, 1959, 4 years after the 1955 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 1382 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N984B 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 N984B: Accident on June 14, 1987 at Lisbon, OH: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 26, 1986 at Lisbon, OH: fatal, minor 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-2 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47G2 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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