Schweizer 269C-1
N21496 is a Schweizer 269C-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Danos Oilfield Service LLC, an LLC in Hobbs, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 14, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C-1 · all 269C-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0358
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-G1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A1CC10 (octal 50346020)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 14, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01028289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Danos Oilfield Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1890
Hobbs, NM 88241-1890
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N21496, 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 Danos Oilfield Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 14, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 14, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0358 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21496 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna T206H (serial T20608422, cancelled December 17, 2003); Cessna 172M (serial 17263958, cancelled October 31, 1977); Piper J-3 (serial 2205, cancelled October 19, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N21496: Accident on November 4, 2015 at Mount Pocono, PA: 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: Schweizer 269C 1 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to remove the tension applied to the cyclic before takeoff, which resulted in a loss of directional control and the tail rotor striking the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA045 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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