Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N500NC is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sanders Associates LLC, an LLC in Bluefield, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated January 14, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1260052D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A63B1F (octal 51435437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · January 14, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00870915
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sanders Associates LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 634 Fairway St
Bluefield, VA 24605-9427
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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 N500NC, 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 Sanders Associates LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 25, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 14, 2004, 27 years after the 1977 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 1260052D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500NC 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 N500NC: Accident on July 5, 2007 at Comfrey, MN: 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 137
The loss of engine power due to the loose pressure line during aerial application maneuvers which resulted in a hard forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07LA193 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