Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N500EK 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 Kar Aviation LLC, an LLC in Saltville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 12, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D
- Serial number
- 1190610D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A63A5E (octal 51435136)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · March 12, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00010571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kar Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 221 Saddleback Rd
Saltville, VA 24370-3447
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N500EK, 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 Kar Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 28, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 12, 2008, 29 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 1190610D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500EK 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 N500EK: Accident on September 17, 2002 at O'Neill, NE: minor 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
A loss of engine power due to turbine blade separation as a result of hot corrosion damage to the turbine blades. Contributing to the accident was the pilot misjudging the flare at the completion of the autorotation resulting in a hard landing. The dark night was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA285 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
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