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N911FC

Bell OH-58A

Valid Tennessee

N911FC 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 Momentum Foundation INC, a corporation in Tullahoma, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 30, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
Serial number
72-21212
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63-A-700 · 317 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
AC9AE2 (octal 53115342)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 3, 2009
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · October 30, 2013
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00815772

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Momentum Foundation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
807 William Northern Blvd
Tullahoma, TN 37388-4734

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

2004-04-02Cessna 172N · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N911FC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Momentum Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2009, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 30, 2013, 41 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72-21212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N911FC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271940, cancelled April 2, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N911FC: Accident on January 25, 2003 at Kalaupapa, HI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX03FA077Accident on January 25, 2003 at Kalaupapa, HI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 17271940

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091

the student pilot's inadvertent VFR flight into IMC, which resulted in his in-flight collision with mountainous terrain while maneuvering. A contributing factor was the low ceiling weather condition.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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