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N5696M

Enstrom F-28C

Valid New York

N5696M is an Enstrom F-28C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1980. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Quogue, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 11, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Enstrom
Model
F-28C · all F-28Cs and related versions
Serial number
502-2
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A74B8F (octal 51645617)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 7, 2014
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 11, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00740436

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hubbard Benjamin L
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 35
Quogue, NY 11959-0035

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5696M, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hubbard Benjamin L, an individual, certificate issued March 7, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 11, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 502-2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5696M according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5696M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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