Hughes 269A-1
N8944F is a Hughes 269A-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 15, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A-1 · all 269A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15-0021
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC571A (octal 53053432)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 15, 1965
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00722411
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fitzgerald Brian B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 914 Barlow Greenmount Rd
Gettysburg, PA 17325-8711
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 N8944F, 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 Fitzgerald Brian B, an individual, certificate issued March 8, 2023, expires March 31, 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 15-0021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8944F 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 N8944F: Accident on June 13, 1991 at Canby, OR: 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-1 · operated under 137
A HARD LANDING AFTER AN UNDETERMINED LOSS OF POWER. FACTORS INCLUDE AN EXCESSIVE EMERGENCY DESCENT RATE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA91LA130 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