Hughes 369HS
N11ZX is a Hughes 369HS, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Big Bird Leasing INC, a corporation in Saint Peter, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated February 4, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369HS · all 369HSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 640609S
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A02C2F (octal 50026057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2002
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · February 4, 1985
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00140375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Bird Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 39567 Fort Rd
Saint Peter, MN 56082-5138
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 N11ZX, 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 Big Bird Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 31, 2002, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 4, 1985, 11 years after the 1974 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 640609S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N11ZX 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 N11ZX: Accident on May 25, 2012 at Delavan, MN: serious 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 369HS · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance with power lines during an aerial application flight.
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 September 30, 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