Hiller - World Helicopters UH-12C
N552DR is a Hiller - World Helicopters UH-12C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hiller - World Helicopters
- Model
- UH-12C
- Serial number
- 562261
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V-335 SERIES · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 63 mph
- Transponder code
- A70734 (octal 51603464)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 17, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00942924
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mussche Roger H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2330 E 700 S
Lafayette, IN 47909-9327
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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 N552DR, 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 Mussche Roger H, an individual, certificate issued April 12, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 17, 2009, 53 years after the 1956 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 562261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N552DR 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 N552DR: Accident on January 12, 2021 at Lafayette, IN: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH12C · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the helicopter shortly after liftoff into a hover, which resulted in a dynamic rollover when the left landing skid contacted the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA124 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