The two-seat Model 47B was the first commercial evolution of Bell’s pioneering Model 30, also designed by talented engineers Arthur Young and Bartram Kelly. The model 47B was the first helicopter model to be certificated for civil use in the world. This example, the 36th built, served over a period of 40 years as a factory demonstrator for Bell, news gathering helicopter, crop duster, trainer and performed power line patrols and aerial photography missions. In 1989, Douglas Daigle purchased the helicopter, had it restored and set the world’s hovering record of fifty hours, fifty seconds.