Bell OH-58A
N657EA is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Edgefield Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sandy, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated June 11, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 68-16789
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63-A-720 · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A8A720 (octal 52123440)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Other · June 11, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00636691
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edgefield Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 429
Sandy, OR 97055-0429
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N657EA, 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 February 1, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated June 11, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 68-16789 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N657EA 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 N657EA. 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