Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N8969F is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Teryjon Aviation INC, a corporation in Bluefield, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 980344-D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20B · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AC5F37 (octal 53057467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 12, 2016
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00121329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Teryjon Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 634 Fairway St
Bluefield, VA 24605-9427
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8969F, 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 Teryjon Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 28, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 12, 2016, 38 years after the 1978 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 980344-D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8969F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 440299, cancelled December 15, 2010). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8969F: Accident on September 11, 2024 at Canton, MI: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 369 · operated under 133
On September 11, 2024, about 1400 eastern daylight time, a Hughes 369D helicopter, N8969F, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Canton, Michigan. The commercial pilot was uninjured. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 133 rotorcraft external load flight. The purpose of the low-level flight was to support powerline maintenance work. The helicopter was operating from an off airport landing zone and conducting Class B cargo delivery to a powerline structure about 300 yards from the landing zone. While in flight, the pilot, wh…
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- 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