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N82778

Bell OH-58C

Valid Florida

N82778 is a Bell OH-58C, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bay County Sheriffs Office, a government body in Panama City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 1995 and expires on June 30, 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-58C
Serial number
71-20439
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AB4E4A (octal 52647112)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 24, 1995
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00115432

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bay County Sheriffs Office
Type
Government
Address
3421 Highway 77
Panama City, FL 32405-5009

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

1989-01-12Piper PA-32R-301 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

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