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Bell OH-58A
N656EA is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Edgefield Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sandy, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated November 4, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As 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
- 73-21911
- 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 · Allison 250-C20C · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A8A369 (octal 52121551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2025
- 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 · November 4, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00406211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edgefield Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 429
Sandy, OR 97055-0429
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N656EA links to the rest of the register
- Bell OH-58 329 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20C 9 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Edgefield Aviation LLC 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Sandy, OR 29 aircraft registered in this town
- Sandy River Airport · 03S
- Oregon 7,013 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
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20C 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N656EA, 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 Edgefield Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 26, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 4, 2024, 51 years after the 1973 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 73-21911 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N656EA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N656EA. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data