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N521PA

Hughes Helicopters Inc 369FF

Valid Delaware

N521PA is a Hughes Helicopters Inc 369FF, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greenville, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 28, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes Helicopters Inc
Model
369FF · all 369FFs and related versions
Serial number
0015F
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C30 · 650 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1985
Transponder code
A68DEB (octal 51506753)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 19, 2016
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 28, 2013
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00672625

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Patriot Aviation INC
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
Attn: Terry Dougherty
3801 Kennett Pike Bldg C Ste 100
Greenville, DE 19807

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

2009-09-15British Aerospace BAE JETSTREAM 3101 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1995-06-01Gates Learjet Corp. 35A · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N521PA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued March 19, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 2013, 28 years after the 1985 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0015F for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N521PA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: British Aerospace BAE JETSTREAM 3101 (serial 702, cancelled September 15, 2009); Gates Learjet Corp. 35A (serial 239, cancelled June 1, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N521PA: Accident on December 14, 1994 at Fresno, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DCA95MA007Accident on December 14, 1994 at Fresno, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 239

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Learjet 35A · operated under PUBU

1) IMPROPERLY INSTALLED ELECTRICAL WIRING FOR SPECIAL MISSION OPERATIONS THAT LED TO AN IN-FLIGHT FIRE THAT CAUSED AIRPLANE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND SUBSEQUENT AIRPLANE CONTROL DIFFICULTIES; 2) IMPROPER MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION PROCEDURES FOLLOWED BY THE OPERATOR; AND 3) INADEQUATE OVERSIGHT AND APPROVAL OF THE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION PRACTICE BY THE OPERATOR IN THE INSTALLATION OF THE SPECIAL MISSION SYSTEMS.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA95MA007 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

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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