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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280FX · all 280FXs 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
- 2139
- 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 HIO-360-F1AD · 190 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A0C05B (octal 50140133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 13, 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 · October 1, 2024
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01134649
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Monadnock Choppers LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 80 Airport Rd Ste 1
North Swanzey, NH 03431-4415
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N1479Y 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-F1AD 34 aircraft with this engine series · 190 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- Monadnock Choppers LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- North Swanzey, NH 7 aircraft registered in this town
- New Hampshire 1,565 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-F1AD 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 13 reports since 1995
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data