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N8525Y

Hughes OH-6A

N8525Y is a Hughes OH-6A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Redlands, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 4, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes
Model
OH-6A · all OH-6As and related versions
Serial number
67-16493
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63-A-700 · 317 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1969
Transponder code
ABB1E4 (octal 52730744)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 2, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 2, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · December 4, 2024
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00392771

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grove Karl P
Type
Individual
Address
1739 Fairmont Dr
Redlands, CA 92373-7273

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

1969-10-21Piper PA-30 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8525Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Grove Karl P, an individual, certificate issued May 2, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 4, 2024, 55 years after the 1969 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 67-16493 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8525Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-30 (serial 30-1686, cancelled October 21, 1969). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8525Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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