Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N161LA is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Air2 LLC, an LLC in Blountville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 711015D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F660 (octal 50173140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 8, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00771035
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air2 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 100 Cargo Center Dr
Blountville, TN 37617-6458
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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 N161LA, 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 Air2 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 16, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 8, 2007, 26 years after the 1981 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 711015D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161LA 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 N161LA: Accident on December 5, 2025 at Pryor, OK: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 091
On December 5, 2025, about 0858 central standard time, a Hughes 369D, N161LA, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Pryor, Oklahoma. The pilot was fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 aerial observation flight. According to the operator, the helicopter departed from a landing zone about 1 mile from the accident site, about 28 minutes prior to the accident. The purpose of the flight was to visually monitor power line replacement operations. According to multiple witnesses who were employed by the power line…
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