Hughes 269C
N300DS is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Slidell, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 7, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1140379
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- A31FAE (octal 50617656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 7, 1975
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00891003
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ellis Thomas Troy
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 151 Industrial Dr
Slidell, LA 70460-4651
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 N300DS, 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 Ellis Thomas Troy, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 7, 1975, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1140379 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N300DS 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 N300DS: Accident on January 6, 1984 at Almo, ID: 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 269C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA84LA035 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
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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