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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E
N774CB is a Hughes Helicopters Inc 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cbhelos LLC, an LLC in Chesapeake, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 1984.
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
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- 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 Hughes Helicopters Inc 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
- 0016E
- 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 · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- AA7817 (octal 52474027)
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 16, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 14, 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 12, 1984
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00621455
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 N774CB links to the rest of the register
- Hughes Helicopters Inc 369 34 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
- Chesapeake Bay Helicopters INC · charter operator
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 530 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 5,973 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 250-C20 series 747 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Lock Nut, failed · 2026-05-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sprag Clutch, broken · 2022-10-03
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The public federal record on N774CB, 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 16, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 12, 1984, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0016E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N774CB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 76 (serial ME-97, cancelled January 13, 2011). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N774CB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data