Bell OH-58C
N179NS 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 an individual in Larimore, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest, dated March 20, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58C · all OH-58Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 70-15079
- 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 · Allison T63 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A13BD9 (octal 50235731)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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; ForestFAA certificate purpose code 14 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 20, 2001
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00376031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morten John DBA
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 20 Burnett Ave
Box 513
Larimore, ND 58251 - Co-owners
- Morten Helicopters
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 N179NS, 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 Morten John DBA, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2010, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 20, 2001, 31 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 70-15079 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N179NS 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 N179NS. 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 September 30, 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