Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N554H is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Igo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 30, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1039
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A70EF6 (octal 51607366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 30, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00193505
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southworth Elizabeth A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11402 Old Canal Rd
Igo, CA 96047-9756
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.
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The public federal record on N554H, 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 Southworth Elizabeth A, an individual, certificate issued February 22, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 30, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1039 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N554H 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 N554H: Accident on March 18, 1990 at Canyon Lake, CA: 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: Enstrom F-28C · operated under 091
THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN PROPER ROTOR RPM DURING A PRACTICE AUTOROTATION. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE UNEVEN TERRAIN SELECTED BY THE PILOT TO CONDUCT PRACTICE TOUCH MANEUVERS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA121 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