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N296C

Hughes 269C

N296C is a Hughes 269C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Patriot Marine LLC, an LLC in New Haven, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes
Model
269C
Serial number
711072
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
64 mph
Transponder code
A30BF6 (octal 50605766)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 14, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
February 14, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00731005

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Patriot Marine LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2 Poplar St
New Haven, CT 06513-4324

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2018-03-02Stinson 108-2 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data