Schweizer 269C
N198DW is a Schweizer 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Graford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- S1746
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A18643 (octal 50303103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 31, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00366451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Welch Troy O
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1210 Plateau Pl
Graford, TX 76449-1530
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N198DW, 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 Welch Troy O, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 31, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S1746 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N198DW 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 N198DW. 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