Hughes 369HS
N16Q is a Hughes 369HS, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 15, 1999. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369HS · all 369HSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1290227S
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F0B3 (octal 50170263)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00820545
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 34 Cardinal Dr
Fredericksburg, VA 22406-5013
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N16Q, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1290227S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16Q according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 29, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N16Q: Accident on April 19, 2003 at Conroe, TX: 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 369HS · operated under 091
The pilot's inability to control the helicopter after encountering loss of tail rotor effectiveness. A contributing factor was the unfavorable winds.
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
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