Hughes 269A
N8782F 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 Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 21, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 0107
- 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
- AC16B2 (octal 53013262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 21, 1962
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00452071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dinger Kevin L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4225 4Th Ave NE
Naples, FL 34120-9066
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 N8782F, 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 Dinger Kevin L, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated November 21, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8782F 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]
2 NTSB records under N8782F: Accident on March 20, 1984 at Supply, NC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 29, 1982 at Westfield, MA: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84LA125 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC82DA172 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