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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:47D-1
    Construction Number:0232
    Last Civil Registration:N8271E
    Compressed ID:Bell 47D-1 cn 0232 cr N8271E
    Latest Owner or Location:Sky Soldiers Demonstration Team / Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, Tara Field, Hampton, Georgia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 47D-1.

    24 March 1975

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8271E (47D1, 232) issued.

    By 28 July 1980

    To unknown owner with c/r N8271E.

    28 July 1980

    Involved in an incident.
    Summarized NTSB narrative from report number CHI80DEV30: There were no fatalities. Incident occurred at 16:15 hours. The damage was substantial. This was a local flight from Rantoul, IL. The engine failed or malfunctioned while en route for crop dusting. Collided with the crop while performing a power-off autorotative landing. There was complete power loss in the failure of one engine. The emergency circumstances included; forced off-airport landing on land...
    For a complete description of the event read the NTSB Report.

    18 November 1998

    To Ballard Dorothy DBA, Waynesville, MO with new c/r N8271E.

    22 January 2004

    To Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, Hampton, GA with new c/r N8271E.

    Based at Sky Soldiers Demonstration Team/Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, Tara Field, Hampton, GA.
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    19 May 2015

    Civil registration, N8271E, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    National Transportation Safety Board
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