Hiller UH-12E
N6006K is a Hiller UH-12E, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Summit Helicopters, a corporation in Salem, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 1983 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 24, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E · all UH-12Es and related versions
- Serial number
- HA3083
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 72 mph
- Transponder code
- A7CA73 (octal 51745163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 1983
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 24, 1983
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00380906
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Summit Helicopters
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 909
Salem, VA 24153-0909
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N6006K, 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 Summit Helicopters, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 1983, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HA3083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6006K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Republic RC-3 (serial 176, cancelled July 19, 1957). 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 N6006K: Accident on March 25, 2025 at Ruston, LA: 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 UH12-ET · operated under 137
The pilot’s improper fuel planning and fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion and subsequent impact with terrain during an autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA143 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