Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N868W is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dah Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Georgetown, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated June 1, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1000800D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- ABEE83 (octal 52767203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · June 1, 2010
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00671385
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dah Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4272 S Fraser St
Georgetown, SC 29440-5198
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N868W, 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 Dah Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 17, 2009, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 1, 2010, 30 years after the 1980 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 1000800D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N868W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeromarine-Klemm L-26-B (serial 3-82, cancelled May 1, 1936). 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]
1 NTSB record under N868W: Accident on March 30, 2012 at Mccormick, SC: 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 369D · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to use automotive fuel instead of the approved alternate fuel, which resulted in a total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12LA260 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