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Hughes 269A
N8913F is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minonk, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 1996 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 27, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. An open steel-tube frame. This is how the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 93-0287
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming HO-360 · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC4BD2 (octal 53045722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 1996
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 131 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 27, 1964
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00921701
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lay Jerry K
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1844 County Road 2900 e
Minonk, IL 61760-7576
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8913F links to the rest of the register
- Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 207 registered
- Hughes 387 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming HO-360 74 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Type certificate 4H12 · held by Schweizer Rsg LLC
- Minonk, IL 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,069 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 54 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 214 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hughes 269 300 series helicopters 64 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HO-360 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HO-360 7 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8913F, 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 October 21, 1996, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 27, 1964, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 93-0287 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8913F 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8913F. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data