Hughes 369
N45780 is a Hughes 369, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nelson Aviation LLC, an LLC in Crown Point, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 23, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369 · all 369s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65-12968
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison T63 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- A58FA6 (octal 51307646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 23, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00882964
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 312 N Park St
Crown Point, IN 46307-3429
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N45780, 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 Nelson Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 15, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 1997, 28 years after the 1969 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 65-12968 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45780 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 2307, cancelled May 28, 1969). 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 N45780. 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