Enstrom F-28A
N173 is an Enstrom F-28A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Grosse Ile, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 12, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- F-28A · all F-28As and related versions
- Serial number
- 218
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A12451 (octal 50222121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 12, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00600791
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shafer Robert T
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 9355 Island Dr
Grosse Ile, MI 48138-1426 - Co-owners
- Shafer Susan A T
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N173, 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 Shafer Robert T, a co-owned, certificate issued January 30, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 12, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 218 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N173 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schempp-Hirth K. G NIMBUS II (serial 27, cancelled May 16, 1996). 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 N173: Accident on May 30, 1993 at Buena Vista, CO: serious 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: Schempp-Hirth NIMBUS II · operated under 091
FAILURE TO FOLLOW PROCEDURES AND DIRECTIVES WHEN OPERATING THE FLAPS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN93LA064 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