Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280FX
N280EH is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280FX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2026. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Enstrom Helicopter CORP, a corporation in Menominee, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; operating kit-built aircraft; crew training; market survey, dated June 23, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 3:52 pm.
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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
- 2179
- 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
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A2CE67 (octal 50547147)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and development; Operating kit-built aircraft; Crew training; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 1756 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 23, 2026
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01532239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Enstrom Helicopter CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2209 22Nd St
Menominee, MI 49858-3595
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N280EH 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
- Enstrom Helicopter CORP 26 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to December 8, 2027
- Menominee, MI 44 aircraft registered in this town
- Menominee Regional · MNM
- Michigan 7,231 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
- Where N280EH is now · Last seen yesterday at 3:52 pm.
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The public federal record on N280EH, 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 Enstrom Helicopter CORP, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; operating kit-built aircraft; crew training; market survey, dated June 23, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280EH 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 N280EH. 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 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