Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N170Q is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Paso Robles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 1999 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1137
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A11A8B (octal 50215213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 1999
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 15, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00462205
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cherry Calvin L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4615 Monterey Rd
Paso Robles, CA 93446-8604
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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 N170Q, 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 Cherry Calvin L, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 1999, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 15, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1137 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N170Q 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N170Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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