Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N173AL is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Salem, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 29, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 18, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1160020D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A1245D (octal 50222135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 29, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 18, 2016
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00473341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fulton Timothy E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1159 Hwy E
Salem, MO 65560 - Co-owners
- Fulton Susan M
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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 N173AL, 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 Fulton Timothy E, a co-owned, certificate issued February 29, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 2016, 40 years after the 1976 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 1160020D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173AL 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 N173AL: Accident on August 7, 2025 at West Alton, MO: fatal, destroyed (2 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 133
On August 7, 2025, about 1059 central daylight time, a Hughes (MD Helicopters) 369D helicopter, N173AL, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near West Alton, Missouri. The pilot and crewmember were fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 133 external load flight. According to the available Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) data for the helicopter, the pilot departed from the north bank of the river about 1025. He appeared to make three trips to the powerline support tower on the south bank of the river and then…
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