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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C-1 · all 269C-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0173
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HO-360 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A3D0FC (octal 50750374)
Registration
- Status
- Expired dealer
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 7, 2014
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 24, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00103949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kinzie Industries INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA353 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