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    Airframe Family: Bell 47 / H-13 Sioux
    Latest Model:47J-2 Ranger
    Construction Number:1865
    Last Civil Registration:N6237N
    Compressed ID:Bell 47J-2 cn 1865 cr N6237N
    Latest Owner or Location:C and M Welch (Operations) Pty Ltd, Bellthorpe, QLD

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 47J-2.

    To unknown owner with c/r N73254.

    To unknown owner with c/r N855NA.

    12 September 1966

    To Antonio G. Morales DBA, Fort Worth, TX with new c/r N6536A.

    10 July 1967

    Civil registration, N6536A, cancelled.

    6 May 1968

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6237N (47J-2, 1865) issued.

    Circa 1977

    To unknown owner with c/r N6237N.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    14 January 1977

    To unknown owner with c/r N6237N.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    To unknown owner with c/r ZK-HGO.

    12 June 1986

    To C and M Welch (operations) Pty Ltd, Bellthorpe, QLD with new c/r VH-JAV.

    Circa 1994

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-JAV.

    1994


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: 1993 photo at Longreach

    To unknown owner with c/r VH-RTK {2}.

    To Kiwi Kopters Tauranga Limited, Mount Maunganui with new c/r NZK-HGI.

    28 July 2001

    To C and M Welch (Operations) Pty Ltd, Bellthorpe, QLD with new c/r VH-JAV.

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for N6237N (47J-2, 1865) issued.

    1 January 2006

    To unknown owner with c/r N6237N.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.

    25 February 2013

    Civil registration, N6237N, cancelled.
    Sale reported to a new owner in Oklahoma City, OK.
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