Helio HST-550A
N550HZ is a Helio HST-550A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1972. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cave Creek, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 24, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 27, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Helio
- Model
- HST-550A
- Serial number
- 007
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A70032 (octal 51600062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 24, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · July 27, 1989
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00014600
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maytag David D JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 40040 N 69Th St
Cave Creek, AZ 85331-8267
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N550HZ, 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 Maytag David D JR, an individual, certificate issued December 24, 1991, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 27, 1989, 17 years after the 1972 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 007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N550HZ according to the deregistered file. [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 N550HZ: Accident on March 1, 1992 at Salome, AZ: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Helio HST-550A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE IN-FLIGHT PLANNING, IMPROPER ALTITUDE, AND DELAYING THE REQUIRED REMEDIAL ACTION TO PREVENT THE COLLISION WITH THE MOUNTAIN. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE UNFAVORABLE WIND AND DOWNDRAFT CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA133 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data