Hughes 269B
N9489F is a Hughes 269B, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bertram, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling, dated May 30, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269B · all 269Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 870325
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- AD2E79 (octal 53227171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling · May 30, 1991
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00984670
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hensley Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1608
Bertram, TX 78605-1608
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9489F, 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 Hensley Richard, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 870325 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9489F 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9489F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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