Enstrom 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 480B · all 480Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 5091
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20W · 420 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A5E6CE (octal 51363316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2006
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 26, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00242619
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Owen Jay
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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]
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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
an engine fire for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA114 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA178 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