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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Hughes 369A
N53HC is a Hughes 369A, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Drive A Tank INC, a corporation in Kasota, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369A · all 369As 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
- 301384
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6AEC6 (octal 51527306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00996911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Drive A Tank 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
- 550 West Cherry St
Kasota, MN 56050
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.
Connections how N53HC 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
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Drive A Tank INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kasota, MN 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,940 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N53HC.json.
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The public federal record on N53HC, 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 Drive A Tank INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 18, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 301384 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53HC 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 N53HC. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data