Hughes 269A
N90270 is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Anderson, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 5, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 66-18283
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7A00 (octal 53075000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 5, 1979
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00371371
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dunn Larry W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3672 Abbeville Hwy
Anderson, SC 29624-5500 - Co-owners
- Dunn Michael S
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N90270, 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 Dunn Larry W, a co-owned, certificate issued April 21, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 5, 1979, 13 years after the 1966 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 66-18283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90270 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech SNB-5 (serial 39777, cancelled date not given). 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]
3 NTSB records under N90270: Accident on June 27, 2023 at Anderson, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 26, 1990 at Sellersburg, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 20, 1987 at Jacksonville, FL: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
The mechanics’ improper torquing of the main rotor blade dampers, which resulted in a ground resonance event during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
A PILOT INDUCED LOSS OF ENGINE POWER BY INADVERTENT DEACTIVATION OF THE FUEL MIXTURE CONTROL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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