Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280FX
N1479Y is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280FX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2013. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Monadnock Choppers LLC, an LLC in North Swanzey, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 1, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280FX · all 280FXs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2139
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A0C05B (octal 50140133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 1, 2024
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01134649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Monadnock Choppers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 80 Airport Rd Ste 1
North Swanzey, NH 03431-4415
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1479Y, 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 Monadnock Choppers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 13, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 1, 2024, 11 years after the 2013 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 2139 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1479Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172C (serial 17249179, cancelled June 21, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1479Y: Accident on May 23, 2002 at Ball Ground, GA: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Cessna 172C · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to maintain adequate obstacle clearance, which resulted in an inflight collision with trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL02FA104 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
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