Hughes 269A
N8733F is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minonk, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2011 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 26, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 22-0052
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC0442 (octal 53002102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2011
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · March 26, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00441424
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lay Jerry K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1844 County Road 2900 E
Minonk, IL 61760-7576
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.
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The public federal record on N8733F, 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 Lay Jerry K, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2011, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-0052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8733F 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 N8733F: Accident on July 22, 2001 at Jacksonville, IL: 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 269A · operated under 091
The helicopter's loss of engine power for undetermined reasons while maneuvering close to the ground, and the low altitude and low airspeed. A factor relating to this accident was the pilot not being able to get into autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA223 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