John Preston Ruth HUMMINGBIRD 300L
N331PF is a John Preston Ruth HUMMINGBIRD 300L, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Hill, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 13, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John Preston Ruth
- Model
- HUMMINGBIRD 300L
- Serial number
- 1907
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-540 SER · 380 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- VERTICAL AVIATION TECHNOLOGIES HUMMINGBIRD 300L
- Transponder code
- A39AD1 (octal 50715321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 13, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01333472
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruth John P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3613 Mason Rd
New Hill, NC 27562-9169
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N331PF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Ruth John P, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 13, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1907 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N331PF according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N331PF: Accident on June 1, 2024 at New Hill, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ruth Hummingbird · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter while hovering.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA244 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data