Hughes 269C
N9658F is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1971. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fayetteville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 31, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes
- Model
- 269C · all 269Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 210090
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 64 mph
- Transponder code
- AD722F (octal 53271057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · August 31, 1977
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00024230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ferguson William T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9 Honeysuckle Dr
Fayetteville, TN 37334-7286
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 N9658F, 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 Ferguson William T, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 31, 1977, 6 years after the 1971 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 210090 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9658F 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 N9658F: Accident on July 1, 2016 at Cullman, AL: 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 269C · operated under 091
The helicopter flight instructor candidate's improper execution of the autorotation, resulting in abnormal ground contact and subsequent damage to the vertical stabilizer and tail rotor drive assembly.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA363 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