Hughes 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- 369E · all 369Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 0151E
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A69786 (octal 51513606)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 28, 1987
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00923405
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviation Advantage INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 7144 Ramsey Ford Rd
Tabor City, NC 28463-9319
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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]
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: 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX00LA047 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