Bell OH-58A
N158TR is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2010. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tri-Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation in Ulysses, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated December 1, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 71-20791
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc T63-A-720 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2010
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A0E9A0 (octal 50164640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 12450 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 1, 2010
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00476531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri-Rotor Spray & Chemical
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 9170 E Road 2
Ulysses, KS 67880-8151
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 N158TR, 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 Tri-Rotor Spray & Chemical, a corporation, certificate issued November 12, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated December 1, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71-20791 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N158TR 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]
1 NTSB record under N158TR: Accident on November 21, 2023 at Brawley, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell OH-58A · operated under 137
A total loss of engine power due to the failure of the No. 8 bearing and the subsequent failure of the scavenge oil pump.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data