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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N48MP is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lewiston, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest, dated May 13, 2013.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Valley Helicopter Service LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 5:21 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1137D
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E761 (octal 51363541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; ForestFAA certificate purpose code 13124 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 13, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00970135
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pope James D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1484
Lewiston, ID 83501-1459
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.
Connections how N48MP links to the rest of the register
- Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369 207 registered
- Hughes Helicopters Inc 241 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Valley Helicopter Service LLC · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 215 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Lewiston, ID 129 aircraft registered in this town
- Lewiston/Nez Perce County · LWS
- Snake River Seaplane Base · 78U
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 21 airworthiness directives
- Where N48MP is now · Last seen Monday at 5:21 pm.
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The public federal record on N48MP, 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 Pope James D, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2005, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 2013, 31 years after the 1982 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 1137D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48MP 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 N48MP: Accident on June 6, 2007 at Troy, OR: serious injuries. 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 inadvertent entanglement of the crewmemeber's helmet's communication cord with the structure of the helicopter during the helicopter's ascent, which resulted in the crewmember being elevated above ground level before the helmet's cord separated, resulting in the crewmember falling into an apple tree. A factor was the pilot's diminished visual lookout.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data