Enstrom F-28A
N194E is an Enstrom F-28A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 22, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- F-28A · all F-28As and related versions
- Serial number
- 009
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A1776B (octal 50273553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 22, 1969
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00712930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bechtel Friend
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 19 S Main St
Dry Ridge, KY 41035-7332
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N194E, 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 Bechtel Friend, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N194E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed VEGA 5 (serial 25, cancelled May 9, 1930). 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 N194E: Accident on September 16, 2012 at Fort Worth, TX: 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 F-28A · operated under 091
The noncertificated pilot's operation of the helicopter, which resulted in the tail boom's contact with the refueling pump.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12CA647 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