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N56DK

Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B

N56DK is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 480B, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2009. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Deka Research & Development CORP, a corporation in Manchester, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 6, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Enstrom Helicopter Corp
Model
480B · all 480Bs and related versions
Serial number
5127
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Turboshaft, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc 250-C20W · 420 hp
Seats
5
Year built
2009
Transponder code
A724E6 (octal 51622346)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 11, 2011
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 6, 2009
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
01018718

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Deka Research & Development CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
340 Commercial St
Manchester, NH 03101-1121

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N56DK, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Deka Research & Development CORP, a corporation, certificate issued July 11, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 6, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5127 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N56DK according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N56DK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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