Hughes 269C
N58208 is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1979. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Smith Helicopter INC, a corporation in Cotulla, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 13, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 390780
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- A77FCF (octal 51677717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 13, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00311655
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Helicopter INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 398
Cotulla, TX 78014-0398
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N58208, 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 Smith Helicopter INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 13, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 390780 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N58208 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75 (serial 75-235, cancelled December 29, 1948). 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]
1 NTSB record under N58208: Accident on March 26, 1985 at Tampa, FL: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA85LA133 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