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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Hughes 369F
N531WH is a Hughes 369F, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Winco INC, a corporation in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2001 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 26, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369F · all 369Fs 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 369 500 series helicopters 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
- 0011F
- 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-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- A6B620 (octal 51533040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 6, 2001
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · September 26, 1986
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00842315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Winco INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 22300 Yellow Gate Ln NE
Aurora, OR 97002-8434
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 1
Connections how N531WH links to the rest of the register
- Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 123 registered
- Hughes 386 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-C30 series 224 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Winco INC 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Aurora, OR 269 aircraft registered in this town
- Aurora State Airport · UAO
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 53 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 1,198 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 165 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N531WH, 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 Winco INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 6, 2001, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 26, 1986, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0011F for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N531WH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-83(MD-83) (serial 53182, cancelled July 20, 2016). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N531WH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data