Hughes 369
N196VS is a Hughes 369, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vertol Systems Company INC, a corporation in Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 17, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369 · all 369s and related versions
- Serial number
- 900787D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- A18061 (octal 50300141)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 17, 2017
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01247795
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems Company INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 727
Destin, FL 32540-0727
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 N196VS, 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 Vertol Systems Company INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 15, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 17, 2017, 37 years after the 1980 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 900787D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N196VS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N196VS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 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