Hughes 269A
N8768F is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1962. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wills Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 4, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 62-0092
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1016 (octal 53010026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 4, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00742111
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reynolds Darryl G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 981 Vz County Road 3411
Wills Point, TX 75169-7595
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 N8768F, 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 Reynolds Darryl G, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 4, 1977, 15 years after the 1962 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 62-0092 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8768F 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 N8768F: Accident on June 15, 2005 at Rusk, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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
A loss of engine power for undermined reasons, and the subsequent collision with power lines and the ground. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05LA159 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