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N196PD

Bell OH-58C

Valid Minnesota

N196PD is a Bell OH-58C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to S.R. Baron INC, a corporation in Brainerd, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated February 16, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
OH-58C · all OH-58Cs and related versions
Serial number
70-15136
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc T63-A-720 · 400 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2012
Transponder code
A17FBE (octal 50277676)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 20, 2025
Expires
June 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 20, 2025
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other; Aerial surveying; Patrolling · February 16, 2012
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00335442

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
S.R. Baron INC
Type
Corporation
Address
5390 Hidden Ln
Brainerd, MN 56401-6345

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N196PD, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to S.R. Baron INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated February 16, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 70-15136 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N196PD according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N196PD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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