Schweizer 269C-1
N61486 is a Schweizer 269C-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1998. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carthage, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C-1 · all 269C-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 0084
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HO-360 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A80129 (octal 52000451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 12, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00973686
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Gary R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16 Bridge St
Carthage, NY 13619-1680
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N61486, 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 Johnson Gary R, an individual, certificate issued June 15, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61486 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13B (SNV-2) (serial 79-530, cancelled October 24, 1955). 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 N61486: Accident on July 27, 2024 at West Carthage, NY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Schweizer 269C · operated under 091
On July 27, 2024, about 1242 eastern daylight time, a Schweizer 269C-1, N61486, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near West Carthage, New York. The private pilot was fatally injured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to a brother of the pilot, he operated out of his private residence and flew regularly over the local area; however, the helicopter had not flown for about 3 weeks prior to the accident flight. The helicopter departed the pilot’s residence about 15 minutes prior to the accident and …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24FA326 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