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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E
N538ST is a Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to J&J Holdings and Investments LLC, an LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 12, 1986.
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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
- 0192E
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6CFC7 (octal 51547707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 1, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 12, 1986
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00961237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- J&J Holdings and Investments LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Apex Heli-Support
1637 W Knudsen Dr H200
Phoenix, AZ 85027
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N538ST 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)
- J&J Holdings And Investments LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Phoenix, AZ 994 aircraft registered in this town
- Mesa Gateway Airport · IWA
- Phoenix Deer Valley Airport · DVT
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International · PHX
- Arizona 8,415 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N538ST, 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 J&J Holdings and Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 18, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0192E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N538ST 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N538ST. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data