Bell OH-58A
N238FW is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southern Helicopter INC, a corporation in O Brien, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; amateur built; racing; crew training; to show compliance with regulations, dated January 7, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 70-15223
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63-A-720 · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A226CA (octal 50423312)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 20, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Amateur built; Racing; Crew training; To show compliance with regulations · January 7, 2009
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00665352
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Helicopter INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 23430 73Rd Rd
O Brien, FL 32071-3717
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 N238FW, 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 Southern Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 19, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 7, 2009, 39 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 70-15223 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N238FW 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 N238FW. 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