Hughes 269A-1
N8948F is a Hughes 269A-1, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oscoda, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A-1 · all 269A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15-0024
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC57A6 (octal 53053646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 29, 1965
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00381641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- O Reilly Thomas P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6533 Loud Dr
Oscoda, MI 48750-9643
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8948F, 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 O Reilly Thomas P, an individual, certificate issued February 16, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15-0024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8948F 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 N8948F. 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