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N421VS

Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D

Valid Florida

N421VS is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vertol Systems Company INC, a corporation in Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 27, 1979. 1 document is on file: loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes Helicopters Inc
Model
HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
Serial number
1090592D
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
A50142 (octal 51200502)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 10, 2019
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 27, 1979
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00031715

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vertol Systems Company INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 727
Destin, FL 32540-0727

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-24Loan release

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The public federal record on N421VS, 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 Vertol Systems Company INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 10, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1090592D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N421VS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Loan release (September 24, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N421VS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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