Hiller UH-12E4
N48220 is a Hiller UH-12E4, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rutland Flying Service INC, a corporation in Ridge Spring, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; aerial surveying; patrolling, dated June 28, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E4 · all UH-12E4s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. This is how the Hiller UH-12 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
- 2162
- 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
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A5F2BE (octal 51371276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Aerial surveying; PatrollingFAA certificate purpose code 1425 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 28, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00780365
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rutland Flying Service INC
- 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
- 1750 Mt Calvary Rd
Ridge Spring, SC 29129-9542
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N48220 links to the rest of the register
- Hiller UH-12 217 registered
- Hiller 242 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rutland Flying Service INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ridge Spring, SC 7 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Hiller UH-12 60 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Hiller UH-12 65 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Hiller UH-12 112 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N48220.json.
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The public federal record on N48220, 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 Rutland Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 10, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; forest; aerial surveying; patrolling; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2162 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48220 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 0-58B (serial 058B-2972, cancelled November 29, 1951). 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 N48220. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data