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Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N690WA is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Windward Aviation INC, a corporation in Puunene, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 15, 2020.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Windward Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds 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 Helicopters Inc HUGHES 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
- 1170237D
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A92CAB (octal 52226253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 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 · December 15, 2020
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01331008
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Windward Aviation 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
- 10 Hansen Rd
PO Box 596
Puunene, HI 96784-0596
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 N690WA links to the rest of the register
- Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369 207 registered
- Hughes Helicopters Inc 241 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Windward Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 216 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Windward Aviation INC 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Puunene, HI 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Hawaii 650 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 21 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: O-Ring, failed · 1997-06-21
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The public federal record on N690WA, 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 Windward Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 9, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 15, 2020, 42 years after the 1978 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 1170237D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N690WA 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 N690WA: Accident on February 20, 2024 at Hana, HI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 369D · operated under PUBU
The pilot’s failure to ensure the passenger’s gear was properly secured before departure.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data