Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N280WR is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Beacon Aviation Flight Services LLC, an LLC in Rogers, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 27, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1108
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-E1AD · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A2CFFF (octal 50547777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 27, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00662275
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beacon Aviation Flight Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6152 W Pleasant Dr
Rogers, AR 72758-9556
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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 N280WR, 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 Beacon Aviation Flight Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 21, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 27, 2019, 42 years after the 1977 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 1108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280WR 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 N280WR: Accident on March 16, 2024 at Port Lavaca, 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 Helicopter CORP 280C · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper manual engine mixture management which resulted in a loss of power. Contributing to the accident was the mechanic’s improper setting of the idle mixture adjustment and the pilot’s decision to take off with a known mechanical deficiency.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA137 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