Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N8612F 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 Gulf Helicopters LLC, an LLC in Santa Fe, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 570142D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250 SER 250HP · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD532 (octal 52752462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 31, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00182521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gulf Helicopters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8426 Fm 2004 Rd
Santa Fe, TX 77510-8494
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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 N8612F, 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 Gulf Helicopters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 4, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 570142D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8612F 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 N8612F: Accident on January 9, 2021 at Winthrop, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369D · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to adequately monitor the environment which resulted in a collision with a snowbank and subsequent loss of control.
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- 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