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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E
N5238C is a Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aviation Advantage INC, a non-citizen corporation in Tabor City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 28, 1987.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 11:22 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- 369E · all 369Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Hughes Helicopters Inc 369 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 0151E
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A69786 (octal 51513606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 1987
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00923405
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviation Advantage INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7144 Ramsey Ford Rd
Tabor City, NC 28463-9319
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
Connections how N5238C links to the rest of the register
- Hughes Helicopters Inc 369 34 registered
- Hughes Helicopters Inc 241 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 530 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Aviation Advantage INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Tabor City, NC 16 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,123 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hughes Helicopters Inc 369 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Tube Assy, mismanufactured · 1996-02-21
- Where N5238C is now · Last seen Saturday at 11:22 am.
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The public federal record on N5238C, 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 Aviation Advantage INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued May 12, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0151E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5238C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 210N (serial 21063722, cancelled October 15, 1980); Beech B35 (serial D-2583, cancelled December 6, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5238C: Accident on November 30, 1999 at Taft, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 369E · operated under 133
The fatigue failure of a second stage compressor vane due to erosion, which resulted in a catastrophic engine failure. An inadequate inspection of the compressor section by company maintenance personnel during the last 300-hour inspection was also causal in this accident. The maintenance personnel's failure to conduct the periodic recommended compressor washes was a factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data