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Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 OBSERVER
N856H is a Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 OBSERVER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 7 seats. It is registered to State of Ohio, a government body in Columbus, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 1988 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1983.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Partenavia S.P.A.
- Model
- P 68 OBSERVER · all P 68 OBSERVERs 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 Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 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
- 256-06-0B
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- ABBE51 (octal 52737121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 1988
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 29, 1983
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00120863
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- State of Ohio
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2829 W Dublin Granville Road
Columbus, OH 43235 - Co-owners
- Department of Transportation
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N856H links to the rest of the register
- Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 16 registered
- Partenavia S.P.A. 11 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- State Of Ohio 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Columbus, OH 280 aircraft registered in this town
- Bolton Field · TZR
- John Glenn Columbus International · CMH
- Ohio State University Airport · OSU
- Rickenbacker International · LCK
- Ohio 8,529 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 5 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 154 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Control Cable, frayed · 2012-07-16
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The public federal record on N856H, 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 State of Ohio, a government body, certificate issued November 23, 1988, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 256-06-0B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N856H 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 N856H. 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 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