{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1994-09-28","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"MCQUEENEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"187","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":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-05","maker":"Bell","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BELL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1181008","mode_s_code":"53305454","mode_s_hex":"AD8B2C","model":"47G-2","n_number":"N972B","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HUNTSVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1987-07-23","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ATL87LA222","probable_cause":"","registration":"N972B","state":"AL","summary":"Accident on July 23, 1987 at Huntsville, AL: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N972B is a Bell 47G-2, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1959. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mcqueeney, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 28, 1994.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 28, 1994, 35 years after the 1959 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 1320 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N972B 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":"1 NTSB record under N972B: Accident on July 23, 1987 at Huntsville, AL: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"1320","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"PO BOX 1028","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00814030","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N972B","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1959,"zip":"781231028"}