Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N8356F is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greenville, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2013 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1260063D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AB6E1D (octal 52667035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2013
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 17, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00183291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patriot Aviation INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- Attn: Terry Dougherty
3801 Kennett Pike Bldg C Ste 100
Greenville, DE 19807
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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 N8356F, 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 Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued October 24, 2013, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1260063D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8356F 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]
3 NTSB records under N8356F: Accident on June 2, 2009 at Greenville, VA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 2, 2001 at Canadian, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 3, 1987 at Forks, WA: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 133
The inadequate design of the fourth-stage turbine wheel, resulting in the fatigue failure of one airfoil and a subsequent loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09LA317 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 091
the helicopter's encounter with loss of tail rotor effectiveness while hovering out-of-ground effect, and the pilot's failure to maintain control. A contributing factor was the soft terrain condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW01LA073 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 133
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA87LA074 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