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Hughes 269A
N653CH is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kelley Aviation Consultants LLC, an LLC in S Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 21, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open steel-tube frame. This is how the Hughes 269 300 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
- 96-0653
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- A89819 (octal 52114031)
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 11, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- 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 · July 21, 1987
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00063450
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kelley Aviation Consultants 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
- 2270 W Mountain Ave
S Williamsport, PA 17702-6828
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 N653CH links to the rest of the register
- Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 207 registered
- Hughes 386 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming HIO-360 series 390 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Type certificate 4H12 · held by Schweizer Rsg LLC
- Kelley Aviation Consultants LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- S Williamsport, PA 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,183 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 214 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 64 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HIO-360 series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360 series 26 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N653CH, 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 Kelley Aviation Consultants LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 11, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 21, 1987, 22 years after the 1965 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 96-0653 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N653CH 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 N653CH: Accident on August 25, 2019 at Shamokin, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
The pilot's improper landing flare during an autorotation, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was a loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination revealed no evidence of any preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the helicopter that would have precluded normal operation.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data