Hughes OH-6A
N6638P is a Hughes OH-6A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Usda Aphis Ws Atoc, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- OH-6A · all OH-6As and related versions
- Serial number
- 67-16333
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A8C2DC (octal 52141334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00685261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Aphis Ws Atoc
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1223 N Airport Rd
Cedar City, UT 84721-8412
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 N6638P, 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 Usda Aphis Ws Atoc, a government body, certificate issued June 15, 2011, expires June 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 67-16333 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6638P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 24-1760, cancelled May 10, 1983). 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 N6638P: Accident on April 15, 1997 at Marfa, TX: 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: Hughes OH-6A · operated under 091
the pilot's improper touchdown, and the designated examiner's inadequate supervision. The light condition at dusk was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97TA162 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
