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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins. This is how the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1037
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-C1A · 205 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- A3BABA (octal 50735272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 25, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 10, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01469338
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mott William R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N3398M links to the rest of the register
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 63 registered
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp 142 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming HIO-360-C1A 6 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- Beach Lake, PA 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,194 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 36 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280 20 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HIO-360-C1A 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360-C1A 21 reports since 1995
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data