Hughes 269A
N9061R is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1967. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Howe, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 10, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269A · all 269As and related versions
- Serial number
- 47-0696
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 65 mph
- Transponder code
- AC8801 (octal 53104001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 10, 1992
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00841251
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cavender Matt
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 10
Howe, TX 75459-0010
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 N9061R, 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 Cavender Matt, an individual, certificate issued September 1, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 10, 1992, 25 years after the 1967 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 47-0696 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9061R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180B (serial 50397, cancelled April 13, 1962). 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 N9061R: Accident on February 7, 1997 at Homosassa, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
the unqualified person's poor judgment, by taking the helicopter without the owner's permission and attempting an unauthorized flight at night; and his failure (or inability) to maintain control the helicopter. Darkness was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA084 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
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