Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N501VS 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 Vertol Systems CO INC, a corporation in Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 13, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 170050D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A63F93 (octal 51437623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 13, 2015
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00023261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 727
Destin, FL 32540-0727
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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 N501VS, 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 Vertol Systems CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 29, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 2015, 38 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 170050D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N501VS 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 N501VS: Accident on February 19, 2018 at Pacific Ocean, PO: 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
An in-flight mechanical malfunction with the helicopter, which necessitated a ditching in the ocean. The reason for the malfunction could be determined because the helicopter sank and was not recovered.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR18CA100 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