Enstrom F-28A
N4889 is an Enstrom F-28A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1969. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Albert Lea Arpt INC, a corporation in Albert Lea, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 1987 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 30, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- F-28A · all F-28As and related versions
- Serial number
- 041
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A609E4 (octal 51404744)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 1987
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 30, 1969
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00840445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Albert Lea Arpt INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Rt 4 Box 1
Albert Lea, MN 56007
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4889, 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 Albert Lea Arpt INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 11, 1987, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 30, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4889 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: American Eagle A-1 (serial 131, cancelled date not given). 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 N4889. 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 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