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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- UH-12E4 · all UH-12E4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2162
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A5F2BE (octal 51371276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Forest; Aerial surveying; Patrolling · June 28, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00780365
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rutland Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1750 Mt Calvary Rd
Ridge Spring, SC 29129-9542
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data