Hughes 369HS
N488NS is a Hughes 369HS, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369HS · all 369HSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 450738S
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C18 · 317 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A6078E (octal 51403616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 18, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01116844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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 N488NS, 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 Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 23, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 2013, 37 years after the 1976 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 450738S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N488NS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Short Bros SD3-30 (serial SH3057, cancelled August 16, 1990). 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 N488NS. 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