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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Md Helicopters Inc 369FF
N5842Z is a Md Helicopters Inc 369FF, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lt Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lexington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 25, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Md Helicopters Inc
- Model
- 369FF · all 369FFs 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 Md Helicopters Inc 369 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
- 0137FF
- 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, 2 motors · Allison 250-C30 SER · 650 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A7877A (octal 51703572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 25, 1999
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00305872
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lt Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4316 Hangar Dr
Lexington, KY 40510-9681
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5842Z links to the rest of the register
- Md Helicopters Inc 369 108 registered
- Md Helicopters Inc 145 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C30 series 224 aircraft with this engine series · 650 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Lt Aviation LLC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Lexington, KY 195 aircraft registered in this town
- Blue Grass Airport · LEX
- Kentucky 2,985 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Md Helicopters Inc 369 84 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Md Helicopters Inc 369 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Md Helicopters Inc 369 191 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Exhaust Stack, cracked · 2003-09-24
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The public federal record on N5842Z, 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 Lt Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 25, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0137FF for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5842Z 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 N5842Z: Accident on July 24, 2015 at Vega Baja, PR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: MD Helicopter INC 369FF · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power due to insufficient lubrication to the engine's No. 2 bearing, which resulted in the failure of the bearing and a subsequent forced landing.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data