Bell OH-58A
N588MP is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical INC, a corporation in Ulysses, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated August 6, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 72-21432
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A794C1 (octal 51712301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2003
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Patrolling · August 6, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00075592
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9170 E Road 2
Ulysses, KS 67880-8151
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 N588MP, 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 Tri Rotor Spray & Chemical INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 18, 2003, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 6, 1998, 26 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 72-21432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N588MP 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 N588MP: Accident on July 10, 2016 at Surprise, AZ: 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 58 · operated under 137
While at a low altitude, the pilot's decision to do an abrupt descending right downwind turn which resulted in flying through his own vortices and an impact with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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