Enstrom 280FX
N3842D is an Enstrom 280FX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). 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 April 17, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 28, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- 280FX · all 280FXs 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 280 Shark 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
- 2128
- 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-F1AD · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A46CC8 (octal 51066310)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 13, 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 · February 28, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00269379
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beacon Aviation Flight Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6152 W Pleasant Dr
Rogers, AR 72758-9556
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 1
Connections how N3842D links to the rest of the register
- Enstrom 280 Shark 65 registered
- Enstrom 215 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-F1AD 34 aircraft with this engine series · 190 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- Beacon Aviation Flight Services LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Rogers, AR 82 aircraft registered in this town
- Rogers Executive - Carter Field · ROG
- Arkansas 3,493 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Enstrom 280 Shark 35 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 13 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3842D, 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 April 17, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2128 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3842D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182A (serial 34542, cancelled August 19, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3842D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data