Bell OH-58A
N861CC is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blair Helicopter Service, a corporation in Lemoore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated September 13, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Serial number
- 71-20861
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc T63-A-720 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD2C3 (octal 52751303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Other; Aerial surveying; Patrolling · September 13, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01016057
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blair Helicopter Service
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 19101 Kent Ave
Lemoore, CA 93245-9137
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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 N861CC, 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 Blair Helicopter Service, a corporation, certificate issued March 13, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; other; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated September 13, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 71-20861 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N861CC 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]
1 NTSB record under N861CC: Accident on August 9, 2023 at Guernsey, CA: 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 pilot’s overpitching of the main rotor blades while maneuvering at low altitude in a high-temperature environment at high gross weight, which resulted in a reduction of engine and rotor speed, excessive main rotor blade flapping, mast bumping, and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA313 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data