Hughes 269A
N7057L is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tri County Rentals And Sales INC, a corporation in Chiefland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 22, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1281052
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- A96A79 (octal 52265171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 22, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00674421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri County Rentals And Sales INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1717
Chiefland, FL 32644-1717
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7057L, 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 Tri County Rentals And Sales INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 2005, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 2002, 35 years after the 1967 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 1281052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7057L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310K (serial 310K0157, cancelled May 12, 1969). 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 N7057L: Accident on April 2, 2022 at Fort White, FL: minor 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 269A · operated under 091
The non-instrument-rated pilot’s decision to fly a visual flight rules only helicopter in instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in a collision with trees and terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data