Bell OH-58A
N82851 is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bokchito, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated February 7, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 72-21118
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AB51B4 (octal 52650664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 24, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · February 7, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00405442
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prentice Walter L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3634 Pritchard Rd
Bokchito, OK 74726-3101 - Co-owners
- Prentice M Leslie
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N82851, 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 Prentice Walter L, a co-owned, certificate issued December 24, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72-21118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N82851 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-3B-1 (serial 3690, cancelled August 19, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N82851: Accident on March 29, 2023 at Wade, OK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell OH-58A · operated under 137
The total loss of engine power due to fuel contamination.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA147 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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