{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1978-03-23","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1991-11-18","city":"ROCHELLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"141","cruise_speed_mph":78,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41525","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"VO-435 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-16","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181012","mode_s_code":"52526767","mode_s_hex":"AAADF7","model":"47G-2A","n_number":"N7878","name":"HENDRICKSON FLG SVC INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Mercedes","damage":"SUBS","date":"2007-07-11","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"DFW07CA156","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the power transmission line.","registration":"N7878","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 11, 2007 at Mercedes, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N7878 is a Bell 47G-2A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Hendrickson Flg Svc INC, a corporation in Rochelle, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 1991 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 23, 1978.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Hendrickson Flg Svc INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 18, 1991, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 23, 1978, 16 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 2707 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N7878 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bird A (serial 1000, cancelled February 9, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"1 NTSB record under N7878: Accident on July 11, 2007 at Mercedes, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"2707","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"RR 2","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00675000","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N7878","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1962,"zip":"61068"}