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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- OH-6 · all OH-6s 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
- 69-15999
- 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-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A6AE3A (octal 51527072)
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 21, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 27, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00894522
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 30736 Peoria Rd
Shedd, OR 97377-9723
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N53BN 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-C20 series 530 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Smith Air LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Shedd, OR 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,013 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes OH-6 6 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
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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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data