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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- OH-6A · all OH-6As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1280950
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C10D · 317 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A598E0 (octal 51314340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 1994
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 11, 2001
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00945032
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kentucky State Police
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 919 Versailles Road
Frankfort, KY 40601
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN89LA031 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