Schweizer 269C
N53KF is a Schweizer 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1996. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pilot Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 25, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- S1738
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A6AEFB (octal 51527373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 25, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00965672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haynes Robert Kent
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8581 Wendell Ct
Pilot Point, TX 76258-6738
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.
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The public federal record on N53KF, 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 Haynes Robert Kent, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 25, 1999, 3 years after the 1996 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 S1738 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53KF 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 N53KF: Accident on July 24, 2003 at Snohomish, WA: 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 269C · operated under 091
The dual students failure to maintain clearance from the terrain during the go-around from a simulated autorotational flare, and the instructor pilot's failure to take adequate remedial action to keep the dual student from allowing the aircraft to impact the terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA03LA151 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data