Bell OH-58A
N727LA is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Spurger, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other, dated August 1, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 71-20721
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A9BE88 (octal 52337210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other · August 1, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00835751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smart James T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 311
Spurger, TX 77660-0311
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N727LA, 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 Smart James T, an individual, certificate issued December 13, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71-20721 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N727LA 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 N727LA. 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