Bell OH-58A
N728LA 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 Jones Flying Association, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2009 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 13, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 71-20818
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C10D · 317 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A9C23F (octal 52341077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2009
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 13, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00165579
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Flying Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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 N728LA, 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 Jones Flying Association, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2009, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 13, 2008, 36 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 71-20818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N728LA 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 N728LA. 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