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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Hughes 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 369HS · all 369HSs 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 Hughes 369 500 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
- 0787S
- 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 · Allison 250 SER 400HP · 400 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A635BE (octal 51432676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 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 · April 14, 1976
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00340845
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sara 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
- 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.
Connections how N5FC links to the rest of the register
- Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 123 registered
- Hughes 386 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 series 446 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Sara Helicopters INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 53 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 1,198 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hughes 369 500 series helicopters 165 supplemental type certificates
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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]
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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).
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