Bell OH-58A
N59516 is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Custom Air-Montana LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated March 28, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 70-15516
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63-A-720 · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A7B294 (octal 51731224)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Patrolling · March 28, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00826062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Custom Air-Montana LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 7967
Missoula, MT 59807-7967
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N59516, 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 Custom Air-Montana LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 30, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 28, 2013, 43 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 70-15516 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N59516 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 1180, cancelled October 12, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N59516. 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 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