Hughes 369HS
N5FC is a Hughes 369HS, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sara Helicopters INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369HS · all 369HSs and related versions
- Serial number
- 0787S
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A635BE (octal 51432676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 14, 1976
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00340845
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sara Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1521 Concord Pike Ste 201
Wilmington, DE 19803-3645
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.
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The public federal record on N5FC, 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 Sara Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 21, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0787S for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5FC 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 N5FC: Accident on March 27, 1991 at Columbia, MD: 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 369HS · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS FAILURE TO SEE-AND-AVOID THE OBSTRUCTION (FENCE POST).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO91LA036 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data