Hughes 269A
N1020S is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tactical Turtle LLC, an LLC in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated July 7, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 26-0467
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- A00E8B (octal 50007213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · July 7, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00220180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tactical Turtle LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1309 Coffeen Ave Ste 1200
Sheridan, WY 82801-5777
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1020S, 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 Tactical Turtle LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 28, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 7, 1980, 14 years after the 1966 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26-0467 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1020S 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]
1 NTSB record under N1020S: Accident on February 21, 2026 at Gettysburg, PA: minor 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 269A · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s failure to identify the excess power required to lift off from soft and muddy ground, which resulted in a loss of control and subsequent collision with a hangar during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA122 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