Hiller H-23D
N48263 is a Hiller H-23D, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sarah Business LLC, an LLC in Merritt Island, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 14, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller
- Model
- H-23D · all H-23Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 1208
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming VO-435 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A5F34D (octal 51371515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2011
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 14, 1977
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00110255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sarah Business LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4405 Stillwater Dr
Merritt Island, FL 32952-6300
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N48263, 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 Sarah Business LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 11, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 14, 1977, 18 years after the 1959 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 1208 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48263 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft / Johnson L2B (serial L-4830, cancelled September 7, 1955). 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]
1 NTSB record under N48263: Accident on April 6, 2025 at Rockledge, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH12E · operated under 091
On April 6, 2025, about 1020 eastern daylight time, a Hiller UH-12E, N48263, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Rockledge, Florida. The private pilot and passenger sustained serious injuries. The helicopter was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ADS-B data and pilot information, the pilot made a left turn and proceeded in a southwest direction climbing to 600 ft barometric altitude. The helicopter remained on that heading, flying between 68 and 70 knots indicated airspeed…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA167 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
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