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N153HT

Schweizer 269C-1

N153HT is a Schweizer 269C-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Hi-Tech Helicopters INC, a corporation in Pocono Lake, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2006 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 1, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Schweizer
Model
269C-1 · all 269C-1s and related versions
Serial number
0240
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-G1A · 180 hp
Seats
3
Year built
2006
Transponder code
A0D615 (octal 50153025)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 21, 2006
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 1, 2006
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00232139

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hi-Tech Helicopters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2901 Locust Ridge Rd
Pocono Lake, PA 18347-7756

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N153HT, 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 Hi-Tech Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 21, 2006, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 1, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N153HT 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N153HT: Accident on March 20, 2011 at Mount Pocono, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ERA11CA201Accident on March 20, 2011 at Mount Pocono, PA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schweizer 269C-1 · operated under 091

The flight instructor's selection of an unsuitable landing site to practice autorotations, which resulted in an inadvertent dynamic rollover during touchdown.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA201 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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