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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B
N48FS is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2006. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wolf Creek, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2006 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 26, 2006.
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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
- 5091
- 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
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A5E6CE (octal 51363316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2006
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- 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 · April 26, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00242619
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Owen Jay
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 72003
Wolf Creek, MT 59648-0070
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
Connections how N48FS links to the rest of the register
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480 73 registered
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 145 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
- Wolf Creek, MT 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Montana 6,041 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
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N48FS.json.
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The public federal record on N48FS, 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 Owen Jay, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2006, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 26, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5091 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48FS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1660, cancelled October 25, 2000). 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]
2 NTSB records under N48FS: Accident on April 4, 1998 at Benton, MO: no injuries, destroyed. Accident on June 20, 1997 at Benton, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
an engine fire for undetermined reasons.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman-Schweizer G-164A · operated under 137
the pilot's inadequate preflight by failing to insure that the secondary flight control lock was stowed properly, and subsequently the secondary flight control lock becoming engaged during the takeoff run. A factor relating to the accident was: inadequate design of the secondary flight control lock that was installed by the airplane's owner/pilot.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data