Hughes 269B
N9333F is a Hughes 269B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1964. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Fire Bird Aviation INC, a corporation in Vivian, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; forest, dated August 28, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269B · all 269Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 34-0040
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- ACF395 (octal 53171625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Forest · August 28, 1995
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00120461
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fire Bird Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 648
Vivian, LA 71082-0648
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 N9333F, 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 Fire Bird Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 20, 2014, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 28, 1995, 31 years after the 1964 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 34-0040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9333F 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 N9333F: Accident on October 5, 1993 at Linville, NC: 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 269B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED THAT WOULD HAVE AVOIDED A LOSS OF TAIL ROTOR EFFECTIVENESS (LTE), AND HIS IMPROPER COMPENSATION FOR TAILWIND CONDITION. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF INFORMATION IN THE PILOT'S OPERATING HANDBOOK REGARDING THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH LTE MAY OCCUR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL94LA002 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