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A Enstrom 280 Shark, the same model family as N280ER
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N280ER

Enstrom 280FX

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N280ER is an Enstrom 280FX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2005. It has 3 seats. It is registered to New Course Aviation CO, a corporation in Golden, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 25, 2005.

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Aircraft

Maker
Enstrom
Model
280FX · all 280FXs and related versions
Built of
steel tube and aluminium
A 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 280 Shark 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
2110
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 HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
Seats
3
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A2CE6F (octal 50547157)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 30, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 30, 2024
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 · April 25, 2005
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00158849

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
New Course Aviation CO
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
434 Spruce Rd
Golden, CO 80401-9372

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N280ER links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Lycoming HIO-360 series 390 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
  • Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
Owner
Place
  • Golden, CO 63 aircraft registered in this town
  • Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
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The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N280ER.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N280ER, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to New Course Aviation CO, a corporation, certificate issued May 30, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 25, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N280ER according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N280ER. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data