Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N533DR is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lt Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lexington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated February 18, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 490533D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A6BBED (octal 51535755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · February 18, 2021
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01304539
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lt Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 300 W Vine St Ste 600
Lexington, KY 40507-1751
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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 N533DR, 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 Lt Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 22, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 18, 2021, 42 years after the 1979 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 490533D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N533DR 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 N533DR: Accident on July 13, 2023 at Atchison, KS: 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: Hughes 369D · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to adequately survey a field for obstructions prior to a low-level aerial application pass, which resulted in an impact with a powerline.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA308 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