{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1991-09-15","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1991-12-24","city":"HOUSTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"03020","engine_horsepower":420,"engine_maker":"ALLISON","engine_model":"250-C20 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-07","maker":"Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"MCDONNELL DOUGLAS HELICOPTER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3027369","mode_s_code":"52672377","mode_s_hex":"AB74FF","model":"369E","n_number":"N8372F","name":"CITY OF HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Manvel","damage":"SUBS","date":"2024-09-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN24LA377","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s improper recovery from a practice autorotation which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was the instructor\u2019s inadequate supervision of the pilot receiving instruction.","registration":"N8372F","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on September 30, 2024 at Manvel, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Arcola","damage":"SUBS","date":"2023-09-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN23LA404","probable_cause":"The instructor\u2019s failure to re-apply engine power during a power recovery after a practice autorotation which resulted in a hard landing.","registration":"N8372F","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on September 7, 2023 at Arcola, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8372F is a Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter 369E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1991. It has 4 seats. It is registered to City Of Houston Police Department, a government body in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 1991 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1991.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to City Of Houston Police Department, a government body, certificate issued December 24, 1991, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0488E for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N8372F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 369HS (serial 160791S, cancelled November 13, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N8372F: Accident on September 30, 2024 at Manvel, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 7, 2023 at Arcola, TX: 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"0488E","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"8402 LARSON HOBBY AIRPORT","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00473702","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8372F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1991,"zip":"77061"}