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Schweizer 269C-1
N345MH is a Schweizer 269C-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Kinzie Industries INC, a corporation in Erie, Colorado. The FAA lists the registration as "expired dealer". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C-1 · all 269C-1s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open steel-tube frame. This is how the Schweizer 269 300 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
- 0173
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming HO-360 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A3D0FC (octal 50750374)
Registration
- Status
- Expired dealerFAA registration status code D (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 7, 2014
- 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 · May 24, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00103949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kinzie Industries INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 450
Erie, CO 80516-0450
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.
Connections how N345MH links to the rest of the register
- Schweizer 269 300 series helicopters 212 registered
- Schweizer 1,187 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming HO-360 74 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate 4H12 · held by Schweizer Rsg LLC
- Kinzie Industries INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Erie, CO 145 aircraft registered in this town
- Erie Municipal · EIK
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Schweizer 269 300 series helicopters 61 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Schweizer 269 300 series helicopters 64 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HO-360 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HO-360 7 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N345MH.json.
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The public federal record on N345MH, 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.
Registration status is "Expired dealer". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 24, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0173 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N345MH 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 N345MH: Accident on May 26, 2012 at Chesterfield, MO: 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 undercharged and overcharged landing gear dampers, which allowed initiation of the ground resonance event from which the pilot was unable to recover due to his limited experience in helicopters. Contributing to the accident was the ineffective damper inspection conducted by the operator’s maintenance personnel and the improper overhaul procedure by the overhaul facility that resulted in overcharged dampers being provided to the operator. Also contributing was the lack of any final acceptance testing criteria for the dampers in the manufacturer’s overhaul procedure manual.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data