Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N5693R is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Willits, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 9, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1194
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A74B2A (octal 51645452)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 9, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00640436
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Waters Willie Frank JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 26581 Ridge Rd
Willits, CA 95490-9091
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5693R, 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 Waters Willie Frank JR, an individual, certificate issued March 4, 2024, expires March 31, 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 1194 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5693R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172F (serial 17253338, cancelled July 28, 1965). 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 N5693R: Accident on July 7, 1982 at Steamboat Sprin, CO: 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: Enstrom 280C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN82DA131 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