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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Hughes 369HS
N3121Q is a Hughes 369HS, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to C&D Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Spanish Fork, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1991.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Wasatch Helicopter, LLC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369HS · all 369HSs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 950768S
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A350C9 (octal 50650311)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- August 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 27, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00263682
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- C&D Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2758 W 6000 S
Spanish Fork, UT 84660-4709
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N3121Q links to the rest of the register
- Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 123 registered
- Hughes 386 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wasatch Helicopter, LLC. · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250 series 446 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- C&D Helicopters LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Spanish Fork, UT 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Spanish Fork Muni/Woodhouse Field · SPK
- Utah 8,353 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 52 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 1,198 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 165 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N3121Q.json.
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The public federal record on N3121Q, 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 C&D Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 17, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 27, 1991, 15 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 950768S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3121Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182K (serial 18258121, cancelled July 26, 1990). 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 N3121Q: Accident on August 2, 1985 at Port Alsworth, AK: 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: Cessna C-182K · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data