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Hughes OH-6A
N46SP is a Hughes OH-6A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kentucky State Police, a government body in Frankfort, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 1994 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 11, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- OH-6A · all OH-6As 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 Hughes OH-6 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
- 1280950
- 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 250-C10D · 317 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A598E0 (octal 51314340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 1994
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 11, 2001
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00945032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kentucky State Police
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 919 Versailles Road
Frankfort, KY 40601
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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 N46SP links to the rest of the register
- Hughes OH-6 28 registered
- Hughes 386 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C10D 13 aircraft with this engine series · 317 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Kentucky State Police 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Frankfort, KY 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Capital City Airport · FFT
- Kentucky 2,979 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes OH-6 6 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C10D 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N46SP, 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 Kentucky State Police, a government body, certificate issued July 27, 1994, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 11, 2001, 33 years after the 1968 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 1280950 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N46SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Skypower GBN-41-1000 (serial 114, cancelled May 1, 1990). 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 N46SP: Accident on November 14, 1988 at Circleville, UT: serious 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: Skypower 6 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data