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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58A+
N282W is a Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58A+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Central States Helicopters INC, a corporation in Wood River, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated November 17, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Garlick Helicopters Inc
- Model
- OH-58A+ · all OH-58A+s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 72-21173
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison T63 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1972
- Transponder code
- A2D75D (octal 50553535)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other; Aerial surveying; PatrollingFAA certificate purpose code 14025 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 17, 2004
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00395442
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central States Helicopters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3236 S Nebraska Hwy 11
Wood River, NE 68883-9725
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N282W links to the rest of the register
- Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58 20 registered
- Garlick Helicopters Inc 36 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) T63 series 46 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate R00006DE · held by Rotorcraft Development CORP
- Central States Helicopters INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Wood River, NE 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Nebraska 2,944 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Garlick Helicopters Inc OH-58 2 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) T63 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N282W, 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 Central States Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2005, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 17, 2004, 32 years after the 1972 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 72-21173 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N282W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hansen THORP T-18 (serial 819, cancelled March 13, 1981); Higgins Industries Inc EB-1 (serial 2, cancelled September 15, 1934). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N282W. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data