Enstrom 280FX
N282SH 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 Bubs Leasing LLC, an LLC in West Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 5, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- 280FX · all 280FXs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2105
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A2D701 (octal 50553401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 5, 2005
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00130789
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bubs Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 230 S 68Th St Ste 1308
West Des Moines, IA 50266
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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 N282SH, 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 Bubs Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 8, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 5, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N282SH 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 N282SH: Accident on July 4, 2020 at Des Moines, IA: minor injuries, destroyed. 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 280 · operated under 091
The partial loss of rotor and engine speed during approach for landing, which resulted in an autorotation and impact with terrain. The reason for the partial loss of rotor and engine speed could not be determined based on the available evidence. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s improper execution of the autorotation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20LA261 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