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Bell OH-58C
N4052D is a Bell OH-58C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Austin, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated September 22, 2011.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58C · all OH-58Cs 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 Bell 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
- 69-16178
- 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 · Rolls-Royc T63-A-720 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A4C1D6 (octal 51140726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2026
- 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; 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 · September 22, 2011
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00373904
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grotz Clayton
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 17885 State Highway 105
Austin, MN 55912-6143
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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 1
Connections how N4052D links to the rest of the register
- Bell OH-58 329 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rolls-Royce T63-A-720 16 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Austin, MN 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Austin Municipal · AUM
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Bell OH-58 32 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell OH-58 10 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N4052D, 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 Grotz Clayton, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 22, 2011, 10 years after the 2001 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 69-16178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4052D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182A (serial 34752, cancelled September 12, 1977). 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 N4052D. 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