Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N51723 is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Logan, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 1, 1978.
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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
- 1136
- 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 HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A67E2A (octal 51477052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- 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 · May 1, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00922195
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhoads Timothy C
- 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
- PO Box 83
Logan, NM 88426-0083
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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 N51723 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 series 390 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- Logan, NM 12 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,113 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 series 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360 series 26 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N51723, 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 Rhoads Timothy C, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 1, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1136 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51723 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T43-5298, cancelled October 11, 1955). 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 N51723. 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 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
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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data