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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B
N480M is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 5 seats. It is registered to New Course Aviation CO, a corporation in Golden, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen October 31 at 1:20 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 480B · all 480Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins. This is how the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 5222
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5E9AC (octal 51364654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01318667
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New Course Aviation CO
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 434 Spruce Rd
Golden, CO 80401-9372
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 2
Connections how N480M links to the rest of the register
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480 73 registered
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 142 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- New Course Aviation CO 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate
- Golden, CO 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,484 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480 3 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480 14 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Circuit Breaker, inoperative · 2022-07-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Cable, broken · 2021-11-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Master Switch, defective · 2021-05-04
- Where N480M is now · Last seen October 31 at 1:20 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N480M.json.
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The public federal record on N480M, 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 New Course Aviation CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 2, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5222 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N480M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA46-500TP (serial 4697108, cancelled January 7, 2002); Mooney M-18C (serial 235, cancelled February 28, 1958). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N480M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data