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N8176S

Bell OH-58A+

N8176S is a Bell OH-58A+, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bladen County Sheriff Department North Carolina, a government body in Elizabethtown, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 1998 and expires on March 31, 2029. 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
73-21895
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AB2698 (octal 52623230)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 30, 1998
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00213926

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bladen County Sheriff Department North Carolina
Type
Government
Address
PO Box 396
Elizabethtown, NC 28337-0396

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

1973-08-20Cessna 150 · Valid registration

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