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N856H

Partenavia S.P.A. P 68 OBSERVER

Valid Ohio

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Partenavia S.P.A.
Model
P 68 OBSERVER · all P 68 OBSERVERs and related versions
Serial number
256-06-0B
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
Seats
7
Year built
1982
Transponder code
ABBE51 (octal 52737121)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 23, 1988
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 29, 1983
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00120863

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
State Of Ohio
Type
Government
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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to State Of Ohio, a government body, certificate issued November 23, 1988, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 256-06-0B for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N856H according to the deregistered file. [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 N856H. 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