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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B
N480MD is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 5 seats. It is registered to J&H Aicraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Berrien Springs, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 19, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 11:42 am.
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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
- 5115
- 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 · Rolls-Royc 250-C20W · 420 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A5E9B0 (octal 51364660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 19, 2020
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01313052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- J&H Aicraft Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8151 Church St
Berrien Springs, MI 49103-9798
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N480MD 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
- Rolls-Royce 250-C20W 51 aircraft with this engine series · 420 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- J&H Aicraft Leasing LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Berrien Springs, MI 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Andrews University Airpark · C20
- Michigan 7,231 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
- FAA orders naming the Rolls-Royce 250-C20W 15 airworthiness directives
- Where N480MD is now · Last seen Monday at 11:42 am.
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The public federal record on N480MD, 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 J&H Aicraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 31, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 19, 2020, 13 years after the 2007 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5115 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N480MD 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N480MD. 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