Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N4265J is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saltville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; forest, dated August 14, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 790542D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A514F9 (octal 51212371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Forest · August 14, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00452359
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ratcliff Dustin
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 221 Saddleback Rd
Saltville, VA 24370-3447
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4265J, 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 Ratcliff Dustin, an individual, certificate issued May 16, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 14, 2025, 46 years after the 1979 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 790542D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4265J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-22659, cancelled March 6, 1974). 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 N4265J. 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 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
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