{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"2004-10-25","airworthiness_ops":"Patrolling","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-21","city":"EXETER","country_code":"US","county_code":"107","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"54385","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ROLLS-ROYC","engine_model":"250-C20B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-21","maker":"Hughes Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470706","mode_s_code":"52666664","mode_s_hex":"AB6DB4","model":"HUGHES 369D","n_number":"N8353F","name":"ROYAL HELICOPTER SERVICES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Richland","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-04-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA02TA067","probable_cause":"Failure of the netting material securing a net weight while maneuvering.  The net weight was a factor.","registration":"N8353F","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on April 11, 2002 at Richland, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Ely","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-01-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX01LA079","probable_cause":"The mechanic's inadvertent activation of the bleed valve, which resulted in a loss of engine oil and loss of engine power while in cruise flight.","registration":"N8353F","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on January 23, 2001 at Ely, NV: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8353F is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Royal Helicopter Services LLC, an LLC in Exeter, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for patrolling, dated October 25, 2004.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Royal Helicopter Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 21, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 25, 2004, 27 years after the 1977 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1260062D for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8353F according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N8353F: Accident on April 11, 2002 at Richland, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 23, 2001 at Ely, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"1260062D","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 817","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00933301","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8353F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"932210817"}