Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N646H is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milton Freewater, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 23, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 10, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1099
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A87C34 (octal 52076064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 23, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 10, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00652366
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Styer David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 910 Cowl St Unit 2
Milton Freewater, OR 97862-1684
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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 N646H, 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 Styer David B, an individual, certificate issued December 23, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 10, 1997, 20 years after the 1977 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 1099 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N646H 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 N646H: Accident on October 9, 2024 at Vale, OR: 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 Helicopter CORP 280C · operated under 137
The pilot’s failure to maintain engine and rotor rpm during takeoff, that resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR25LA010 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