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N50045

Hughes 269A

Valid Minnesota

N50045 is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Drive A Tank INC, a corporation in Kasota, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes
Model
269A
Serial number
76-0610
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
65 mph
Transponder code
A63CF2 (octal 51436362)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 31, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 31, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00260935

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Drive A Tank INC
Type
Corporation
Address
550 Cherry St W
Kasota, MN 56050-2062

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 3

1980-04-18Hughes TH-55 · Valid registration
1973-06-14Cessna U206F · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1955-10-21Cessna T-50 · Valid registration

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