Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N458HW 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 Heliwild Investments LLC, an LLC in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 390483D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A59098 (octal 51310230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 26, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00731795
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heliwild Investments LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 501 W Powell Ln Ste 201
Austin, TX 78753-5946
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N458HW, 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 Heliwild Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 16, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 26, 2019, 40 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 390483D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N458HW according to the deregistered file. [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]
1 NTSB record under N458HW: Accident on December 8, 2022 at La Sal, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from terrain during a toe-in landing to sloping terrain which resulted in a loss of helicopter control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA063 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data