Bell OH-58C
N158AB is a Bell OH-58C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bell Textron INC, a corporation in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated December 11, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58C · all OH-58Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 68-16810
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C30R/3 · 650 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A0E7E9 (octal 50163751)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · December 11, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00705562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Textron INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3255 Bell Flight Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76118-7630
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N158AB, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bell Textron INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 30, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 11, 2012, 42 years after the 1970 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 68-16810 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N158AB according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N158AB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data