Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N114HD is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Windward Aviation INC, a corporation in Puunene, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 1994 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated February 24, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 280261D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A03BC2 (octal 50035702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 1994
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · February 24, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00273652
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Windward Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 596
Puunene, HI 96784-0596
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.
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The public federal record on N114HD, 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 Windward Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 29, 1994, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 24, 1998, 20 years after the 1978 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 280261D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N114HD 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 N114HD: Accident on August 13, 2006 at Lahaina, HI: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 133
the pilot's failure to shut down the engine prior to exiting the helicopter resulting in the tail rotor contacting the ground. A contributing factor was the gusting wind conditions present at the accident site.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data