Hughes 269A
N90271 is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morehead City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 4, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 65-18261
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7A01 (octal 53075001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 4, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 12, 1982
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00361371
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gartman Jerald B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 204 Harbor Dr
Morehead City, NC 28557-8911
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 N90271, 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 Gartman Jerald B, an individual, certificate issued July 4, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 12, 1982, 17 years after the 1965 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 65-18261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90271 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech SNB-5 (serial 29641, cancelled September 25, 1970). 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 N90271: Accident on August 10, 2002 at Covington, WA: 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 269A · operated under 091
Aircraft control not maintained while hovering.
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