Hughes 269C
N87898 is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Darrington, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 11, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 440301
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- AC17C2 (octal 53013702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 11, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00342081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scott Shawn
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 791
Darrington, WA 98241-0791
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N87898, 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 Scott Shawn, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 440301 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87898 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15516, cancelled July 20, 1961). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N87898. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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