Schweizer 269C
N7492F is a Schweizer 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2008. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Houston Police Dept, a government body in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schweizer
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- S1920
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-D1A · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AA169D (octal 52413235)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 8, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01018554
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Houston Police Dept
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 8402 Larson
Houston, TX 77061 - Co-owners
- Air Support Div
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.
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The public federal record on N7492F, 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 Houston Police Dept, a government body, certificate issued January 26, 2009, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 8, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S1920 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7492F 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 N7492F: Accident on September 24, 1996 at Houston, TX: 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 269C · operated under 091
company maintenance personnel not complying with maintenance procedures and directives to inspect the helicopter's skids, which allowed the right skid to wear beyond the manufacturer's tolerances.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96TA398 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
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