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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E
N593C is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to K & S Helicopters INC, a corporation in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 369E · all 369Es 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 Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 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
- 201E
- 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, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A7A8BE (octal 51724276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 2, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00122487
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- K & S Helicopters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 5371
Kailua Kona, HI 96745-5371
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 2
Connections how N593C links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369 83 registered
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 135 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- K & S Helicopters INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Kailua Kona, HI 74 aircraft registered in this town
- Hawaii 694 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stud, sheared · 1995-01-07
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stud, sheared · 1995-01-07
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The public federal record on N593C, 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 K & S Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 2, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 201E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N593C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-3593, cancelled October 4, 1955); Douglas DC3C (serial 13310, cancelled date not given). 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 N593C: Accident on April 16, 2019 at Hauula, HI: 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: MD Helicopter 369 · operated under 135
Fuel exhaustion as a result of the pilot’s fuel burn miscalculation. Contributing to the accident was the inoperative caution light indicating low fuel level.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data