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Hughes 269C
N58281 is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; patrolling, dated July 25, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open steel-tube frame. This is how the Hughes 269 300 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
- 1180734
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-D1A · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- A780E0 (octal 51700340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; PatrollingFAA certificate purpose code 15 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 25, 2014
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00431685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lueck Thomas J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 600 Western College Rd
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-9046
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 N58281 links to the rest of the register
- Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 207 registered
- Hughes 386 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming HIO-360-D1A 41 aircraft with this engine series · 190 hp
- Type certificate 4H12 · held by Schweizer Rsg LLC
- Cedar Rapids, IA 117 aircraft registered in this town
- The Eastern Iowa Airport · CID
- Iowa 4,503 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 214 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 64 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HIO-360-D1A 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360-D1A 78 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N58281, 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 Lueck Thomas J, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 25, 2014, 36 years after the 1978 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 1180734 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N58281 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 N58281: Accident on August 31, 1989 at Parkersburg, WV: serious 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 PILOT'S INADVERTENT USE (MOVEMENT) OF THE COLLECTIVE CONTROL DURING ENGINE OPERATION BEFORE SHUTDOWN, AND A SUBSEQUENT LIFT-OFF, LOSS OF CONTROL, ROLL OVER, AND COLLISION WITH THE GROUND.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data