Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D
N969VS is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vertol Systems CO INC, a corporation in Destin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 2000. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Helicopters Inc
- Model
- HUGHES 369D · all HUGHES 369Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1100833D
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Allison 250-C20 SER · 420 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AD7F81 (octal 53277601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 31, 2000
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00985780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertol Systems CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 727
Destin, FL 32540-0727
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N969VS, 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 Vertol Systems CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 12, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 2000, 20 years after the 1980 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 1100833D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N969VS according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 24, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N969VS: Accident on May 10, 2024 at Crestview, 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 369 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing and the main rotor blades contacting the tail boom.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA215 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data