Hiller OH-23C
N234SM is a Hiller OH-23C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1955. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sussex, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 12, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- OH-23C · all OH-23Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 55-4101
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V4 SERIES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A218F8 (octal 50414370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 2, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 12, 1993
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00180862
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robertson Kenneth W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 235 Stateline Drive
Sussex, NJ 07461-0390
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.
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The public federal record on N234SM, 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 Robertson Kenneth W, an individual, certificate issued February 2, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 12, 1993, 38 years after the 1955 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 55-4101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N234SM according to the deregistered file. [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 N234SM: Accident on December 18, 1995 at N. Myrtle Beach, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Hiller 12C · operated under 091
The pilot's improper operation of the flight controls during a practice autorotation, and the certified flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the operation
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL96LA023 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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