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N3766Z

Hughes 369HS

N3766Z is a Hughes 369HS, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Frazier Park, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 29, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes
Model
369HS · all 369HSs and related versions
Serial number
440588S
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
A44D57 (octal 51046527)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 16, 2015
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 29, 1980
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00040124

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Banfield Patrick C
Type
Individual
Address
17446 Lockwood Valley Rd
Frazier Park, CA 93225-9318

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

1968-10-07Piper PA-18-150 · exported to Ethiopia · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N3766Z, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Banfield Patrick C, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 29, 1980, 6 years after the 1974 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 440588S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3766Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 18-7529, cancelled October 7, 1968). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N3766Z: Accident on August 19, 1988 at Riviera Beach, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MIA88FA257Accident on August 19, 1988 at Riviera Beach, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 500 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA88FA257 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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