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N497E

Bell OH-58A

N497E is a Bell OH-58A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kern County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Bell
Model
OH-58A
Serial number
69-16375
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
A62A7D (octal 51425175)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 24, 1997
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00246651

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kern County Sheriffs Department
Type
Government
Address
1350 Norris Rd
Bakersfield, CA 93308-2231

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data