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N9665F

Hughes 269C

Valid Alabama

N9665F 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 co-owned owners in Athens, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 23, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes
Model
269C · all 269Cs and related versions
Serial number
110088
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
64 mph
Transponder code
AD757D (octal 53272575)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 10, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 10, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 23, 2004
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00034200

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Franklin Charles L
Type
Co-owned
Address
18886 Wentworth Dr
Athens, AL 35613-5764
Co-owners
Franklin Carla C

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9665F, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Franklin Charles L, a co-owned, certificate issued June 10, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 23, 2004, 33 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 110088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9665F according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9665F: Accident on November 19, 1986 at Eden, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL87LA023Accident on November 19, 1986 at Eden, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hughes 269C · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL87LA023 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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