Hughes OH-6
N53BN is a Hughes OH-6, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Smith Air LLC, an LLC in Shedd, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 27, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- OH-6 · all OH-6s and related versions
- Serial number
- 69-15999
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A6AE3A (octal 51527072)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · March 27, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00894522
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 30736 Peoria Rd
Shedd, OR 97377-9723
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 N53BN, 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 Smith Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 21, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 2017, 47 years after the 1970 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 69-15999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53BN 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N53BN. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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