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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000
N280AM is an Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Smithville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 10, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aircraft Mfg & Development Co
- Model
- CH 2000 · all CH 2000s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000 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
- 20-1041
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A2CE07 (octal 50547007)
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 8, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- 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 · September 10, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00125079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sabol John
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1469 Fm 153
Smithville, TX 78957-9642
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N280AM links to the rest of the register
- Aircraft Mfg & Development Co CH 2000 38 registered
- Aircraft Mfg & Development Co 70 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,132 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Smithville, TX 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Smithville Crawford Municipal · 84R
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N280AM, 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 Sabol John, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 10, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20-1041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280AM 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]
1 NTSB record under N280AM: Accident on June 10, 2006 at Chandler, AZ: 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: Aircraft Mfg & Dev. Co. (Amd) CH2000 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control and the instructor's delayed remedial actions, which resulted in a collision with terrain during the initial takeoff climb. The instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight was also causal.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data