Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N3398M is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1037
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-C1A · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A3BABA (octal 50735272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 10, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01469338
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mott William R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 115 Welcome Lake Estates Ln
Beach Lake, PA 18405-7722
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3398M, 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 Mott William R, an individual, certificate issued October 25, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 10, 2025, 49 years after the 1976 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 1037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3398M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-201 (serial 28R-7837113, cancelled January 4, 2018); Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2249, cancelled May 9, 1957). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3398M: Accident on March 19, 2014 at Ruidoso, NM: 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: Piper PA 28R-201 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to adjust the engine's fuel-air mixture and decision to takeoff in high density attitude conditions which degraded the airplane's performance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14CA164 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