Hughes 269C
N340DC is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Itb Sokolowski LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 16, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 970634
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-D1A · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- A3BD9C (octal 50736634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 16, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00052361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Itb Sokolowski LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N340DC, 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 Itb Sokolowski LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 15, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 16, 2024, 47 years after the 1977 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 970634 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N340DC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0540, cancelled January 7, 2011); Cessna 340A (serial 340A0968, cancelled November 19, 2003). 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 N340DC: Accident on August 9, 2003 at Bishop, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 340A · operated under 091
the pilot's in-flight loss of control due to a Somatogravic illusion and/or spatial disorientation. Factors in the accident were the dark lighting conditions and the pilot's lack of familiarity with the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX03FA254 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