Hughes 269C
N500HS is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bow, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 10, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 170554
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- A63AB0 (octal 51435260)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2013
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 10, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00040895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Daniels Richard L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 17085 Wood Rd
Bow, WA 98232-9579 - Co-owners
- Daniels Debbi D
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.
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The public federal record on N500HS, 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 Daniels Richard L, a co-owned, certificate issued August 12, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 170554 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500HS 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 N500HS: Accident on July 25, 2003 at Marblemount, WA: 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 269C · operated under 091
The partial failure of a magneto during hover taxi over water, leading to a forced landing in shallow water near the shoreline. Factors include the aircraft being over a lake at the time that the partial loss of power made it impossible to keep it airborne.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA03LA156 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