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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Continental Copters-Darling EL TOMCAT MK-5A
N380B is a Continental Copters-Darling EL TOMCAT MK-5A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 1 seat. It is registered to Penn-Tex Helicopters INC, a corporation in New Iberia, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 26, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Continental Copters-Darling
- Model
- EL TOMCAT MK-5A
- Serial number
- MHTC-7
- 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 0-435 · 175 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A45B63 (octal 51055543)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 26, 1975
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00420557
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Penn-Tex Helicopters 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
- 2111 Highway 14
New Iberia, LA 70560-8317
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N380B links to the rest of the register
- Continental Copters-Darling 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-435 88 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Type certificate H5SW · held by Scott'S-Bell 47 INC
- Penn-Tex Helicopters INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- New Iberia, LA 44 aircraft registered in this town
- Acadiana Regional · ARA
- Louisiana 3,729 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435 4 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N380B.json.
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The public federal record on N380B, 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 Penn-Tex Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 15, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MHTC-7 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N380B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Graham Dennis PITTS SID (serial DG1980-1CG, cancelled September 28, 2010); Beech H35 (serial D-4920, cancelled August 4, 1970). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N380B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data