Texas Helicopter Corp OH-13E/M74
N51850 is a Texas Helicopter Corp OH-13E/M74, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Hendrickson Flying Service INC, a corporation in Rochelle, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 31, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Texas Helicopter Corp
- Model
- OH-13E/M74 · all OH-13E/M74s and related versions
- Serial number
- 78-018
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A68247 (octal 51501107)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 31, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00402225
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hendrickson Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 21532 Quinta Rd
Rochelle, IL 61068
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N51850, 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 Hendrickson Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 14, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 31, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78-018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51850 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-3234, cancelled October 24, 1955). 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]
1 NTSB record under N51850: Accident on August 2, 1989 at Norman Park, GA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Texas Helicopter OH-13/M74 · operated under 137
IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT FROM EXPOSURE TO LANNATE, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE/CLEARANCE ABOVE THE GROUND. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO USE A RESPIRATOR WHILE HANDLING OR BEING EXPOSED TO LANNATE.,
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL89FA193 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data