Enstrom 280FXT
N280FX is an Enstrom 280FXT, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1984. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Enstrom Helicopter CORP, a corporation in Menominee, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 29, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- 280FXT · all 280FXTs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A2CE8E (octal 50547216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 14, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · April 29, 2013
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00142734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Enstrom Helicopter CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2209 22Nd St
Menominee, MI 49858-3515
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.
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The public federal record on N280FX, 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 December 14, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 29, 2013, 29 years after the 1984 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280FX 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 N280FX: Accident on July 16, 1988 at Menominee, MI: 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 280FX · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA168 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data