Bell OH-58A
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- OH-58A · all OH-58As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bell OH-58 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 72-21212
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 30, 2013
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00815772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Momentum Foundation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 807 William Northern Blvd
Tullahoma, TN 37388-4734
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N911FC links to the rest of the register
- Bell OH-58 329 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) T63-A-700 16 aircraft with this engine series · 317 hp
- Momentum Foundation INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Tullahoma, TN 114 aircraft registered in this town
- Tullahoma Rgnl/Wm Northern Field · THA
- Tennessee 6,518 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Bell OH-58 32 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Bell OH-58 10 supplemental type certificates
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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.
Valid registration to Momentum Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2009, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 72-21212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N911FC: Accident on January 25, 2003 at Kalaupapa, HI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: 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
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data
