Hiller OH-23B
N6057 is a Hiller OH-23B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Marcos, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- OH-23B · all OH-23Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Hiller OH-23 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
- 54-2930
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A7DD1F (octal 51756437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00831016
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ender Ray L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 725 Scull Rd
San Marcos, TX 78666-1629
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.
Connections how N6057 links to the rest of the register
- Hiller OH-23 15 registered
- Hiller 242 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate 6H2 · held by Siam Hiller Holdings INC
- San Marcos, TX 89 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Hiller OH-23 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6057.json.
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The public federal record on N6057, 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 Ender Ray L, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 54-2930 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6057 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]
1 NTSB record under N6057: Accident on November 24, 2014 at Leesburg, VA: 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 OH 23B · operated under 091
A loss of tail rotor effectiveness while hovering in gusting crosswind conditions resulting in the student pilot's loss of control of the helicopter. Contributing was the delayed remedial action of the flight instructor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data