Hughes 269C
N3626B is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Cresco, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 7, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- S1196
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- A416E6 (octal 51013346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 7, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00951046
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barney Thomas E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 107 Dawn Dr
Cresco, PA 18326-7145 - Co-owners
- Barney Brooke G
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 N3626B, 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 Barney Thomas E, a co-owned, certificate issued August 1, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 7, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S1196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3626B 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 N3626B: Accident on August 7, 2001 at Lewiston, NY: 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
The pilot's failure to maintain rotor rpm during the simulated forced landing. Also causal in the accident was the failure of both pilots to recognize the total loss of engine power and the CFI's inadequate remedial actions. A factor in the accident was the loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD01LA095 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