Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N8353F is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Royal Helicopter Services LLC, an LLC in Exeter, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for patrolling, dated October 25, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1260062D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AB6DB4 (octal 52666664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Patrolling · October 25, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00933301
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royal Helicopter Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 817
Exeter, CA 93221-0817
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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 N8353F, 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 Royal Helicopter Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 21, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 25, 2004, 27 years after the 1977 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 1260062D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8353F 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]
2 NTSB records under N8353F: Accident on April 11, 2002 at Richland, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 23, 2001 at Ely, NV: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under PUBU
Failure of the netting material securing a net weight while maneuvering. The net weight was a factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA02TA067 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 091
The mechanic's inadvertent activation of the bleed valve, which resulted in a loss of engine oil and loss of engine power while in cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA079 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data