Bell OH-58C
N436SD 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 Malolo LLC, an LLC in San Luis Obispo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 18, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58C · all OH-58Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 70-15436
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A53AFC (octal 51235374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · August 18, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00675512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Malolo LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Ct International
4349 Old Santa Fe Rd
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-8175
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 N436SD, 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 Malolo LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 2005, 35 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 70-15436 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N436SD 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]
1 NTSB record under N436SD: Accident on January 19, 2000 at Brawley, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell OH-58C · operated under 137
The fuel system contamination that resulted in a loss of engine power during aerial application and a subsequent collision with the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA076 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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
