Hughes 269C
N8973F is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1973. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Avelan Enterprises INC, a corporation in Elm Grove, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 17, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 430195
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- AC621C (octal 53061034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2013
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · October 17, 1975
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00001551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avelan Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- C/O Charles Glasscock
PO Box 16
Elm Grove, LA 71051-0016
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 N8973F, 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 Avelan Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 14, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated October 17, 1975, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 430195 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8973F 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 N8973F: Accident on February 18, 1991 at Knowles, OK: 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 269C · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER DESCENT RATE DURING THE MANEUVER AND HIS DELAY IN INITIATING THE GO-AROUND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW91LA041 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