{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1982-04-08","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2001-02-02","city":"WHITE CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41526","engine_horsepower":280,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TVO-435-GIA","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-08-25","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181028","mode_s_code":"52367364","mode_s_hex":"A9EEF4","model":"47G-3B-1","n_number":"N73909","name":"DSM INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Medford","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-06-23","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"SEA04LA114","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a tree while maneuvering.  Trees were a factor.","registration":"N73909","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on June 23, 2004 at Medford, OR: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"GOLD HILL","damage":"DEST","date":"1994-02-24","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"SEA94LA065","probable_cause":"SEPARATION OF THE CROSSOVER FUEL LINE, AND THE INABILITY OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO MAINTAIN A PROPER RATE OF DESCENT DURING THE AUTOROTATION.","registration":"N73909","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on February 24, 1994 at Gold Hill, OR: serious injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N73909 is a Bell 47G-3B-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Dsm INC, a corporation in White City, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2001 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 8, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Dsm INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 2, 2001, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 1982, 20 years after the 1962 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2797 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N73909 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N73909: Accident on June 23, 2004 at Medford, OR: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 24, 1994 at Gold Hill, OR: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"2797","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"660 AVENUE C","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00932337","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N73909","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1962,"zip":"975031030"}