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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1180734
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Patrolling · July 25, 2014
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00431685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lueck Thomas J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 600 Western College Rd
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404-9046
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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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89LA078 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