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N983TL

Hughes 269A

N983TL is a Hughes 269A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Yelm, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. 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
191075
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
65 mph
Transponder code
ADB7FD (octal 53333775)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 18, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 10, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01132231

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elwell Andrew L
Type
Co-owned
Address
11231 Skyview Ln SE
Yelm, WA 98597-9625
Co-owners
Elwell Bethany E

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.

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