Enstrom F-28A
N296Q is an Enstrom F-28A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1975. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Peapack, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 25, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- F-28A · all F-28As and related versions
- Serial number
- 316
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A30D22 (octal 50606442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 15, 2002
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 25, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00680793
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Steffens Robert S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 5
Peapack, NJ 07977-0005
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 N296Q, 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 Steffens Robert S, an individual, certificate issued January 15, 2002, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 25, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 316 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N296Q 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 N296Q: Accident on June 5, 1992 at Malvern, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 F28A · operated under 091
THE PILOT ABRUPTLY MOVED THE CYCLIC REARWARD WHICH RESULTED IN THE MAIN ROTOR BLADES STRIKING AND SEPARATING THE TAIL BOOM. A FACTOR IN THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE SOFT MUDDY FIELD.
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- 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