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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins. This is how the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1099
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A87C34 (octal 52076064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 23, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 10, 1997
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00652366
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Styer David B
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 910 Cowl St Unit 2
Milton Freewater, OR 97862-1684
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.
Connections how N646H links to the rest of the register
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 63 registered
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 142 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming HIO-360 series 390 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- Milton Freewater, OR 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 36 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 20 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HIO-360 series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360 series 26 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Doubler, cracked · 2004-05-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, delaminated · 2004-05-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Control Cable, worn · 2003-10-02
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data