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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E
N748CB is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1988. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cbhelos LLC, an LLC in Chesapeake, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 23, 2009.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Chesapeake Bay Helicopters INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter
- Model
- 369E · all 369Es 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 Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 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
- 0303E
- 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
- 1988
- Transponder code
- AA1076 (octal 52410166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 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 · January 23, 2009
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00594431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cbhelos 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
- 5202 W Military Hwy Bldg 11
Chesapeake, VA 23321-1014
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
Connections how N748CB links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369 83 registered
- Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 135 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Chesapeake Bay Helicopters INC · charter operator
- Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 216 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H3WE · held by MD Helicopters INC (Mdhi)
- Cbhelos LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Chesapeake, VA 148 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C20B 21 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N748CB, 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 Cbhelos LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 17, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 2009, 21 years after the 1988 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 0303E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N748CB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cameron Balloons Ltd V-77 (serial 635, cancelled July 27, 2009). 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 N748CB: Accident on July 1, 1994 at Littleton, CO: 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: Cameron V-77 · operated under 091
A TOTAL FAILURE OF THE BALLOON'S HEATER SYSTEM (PILOT LIGHT) FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. A FACTOR WAS UNSUITABLE TERRAIN ON WHICH TO MAKE A FORCED LANDING.
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
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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data