Hughes 269A
N1020Q is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mike Rinker Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Union City, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 115-0426
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- A00E89 (octal 50007211)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00240180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mike Rinker Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 313 E Florida Ave
Union City, TN 38261-3957
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 N1020Q, 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 Mike Rinker Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 2, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. 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 115-0426 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1020Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 28-7716078, cancelled September 29, 1978). 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]
2 NTSB records under N1020Q: Accident on April 27, 2008 at Lincoln, NE: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 5, 2005 at Omaha, NE: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to properly execute a steep approach, which resulted in a tail strike and a loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08CA120 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for an undetermined reason and the pilot's improper execution of the emergency procedure which resulted in an excessive descent rate and subsequent hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06CA029 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