{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1977-03-17","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-10-24","city":"GREENVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":112,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-09","maker":"Hughes Helicopters Inc","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUGHES HELICOPTERS INC","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"4470706","mode_s_code":"52667035","mode_s_hex":"AB6E1D","model":"HUGHES 369D","n_number":"N8356F","name":"PATRIOT AVIATION INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Greenville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2009-06-02","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ERA09LA317","probable_cause":"The inadequate design of the fourth-stage turbine wheel, resulting in the fatigue failure of one airfoil and a subsequent loss of engine power.","registration":"N8356F","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on June 2, 2009 at Greenville, VA: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Canadian","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-03-02","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW01LA073","probable_cause":"the helicopter's encounter with loss of tail rotor effectiveness while hovering out-of-ground effect, and the pilot's failure to maintain control.  A contributing factor was the soft terrain condition.","registration":"N8356F","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on March 2, 2001 at Canadian, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"FORKS","damage":"DEST","date":"1987-04-03","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"SEA87LA074","probable_cause":"","registration":"N8356F","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on April 3, 1987 at Forks, WA: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8356F is a Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Greenville, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2013 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1977.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Patriot Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued October 24, 2013, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1260063D for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8356F 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":"3 NTSB records under N8356F: Accident on June 2, 2009 at Greenville, VA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 2, 2001 at Canadian, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 3, 1987 at Forks, WA: minor injuries, destroyed. 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Non-citizen corporation","registrant_type_code":"8","seats":4,"serial_number":"1260063D","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"ATTN: TERRY DOUGHERTY","street2":"3801 KENNETT PIKE BLDG C STE 100","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00183291","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8356F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"19807"}