Hughes 269A
N8724F is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to Del Rio Aviation INC, a corporation in Paso Robles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 1995 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 18, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 12-0039
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HO-360 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC00AE (octal 53000256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 1995
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 18, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00042241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Del Rio Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5062 Wing Way
Paso Robles, CA 93446-9528
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8724F, 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 Del Rio Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 16, 1995, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12-0039 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8724F 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 N8724F: Accident on June 25, 2001 at Paso Robles, CA: serious 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 269A · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain rotor rpm during a practice autorotational landing, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA219 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