Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N602H is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1977. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Trumansburg, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 16, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 15, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1077
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1977
- Transponder code
- A7CF5C (octal 51747534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 16, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 15, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00040866
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- King John H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9752 Kingtown Rd
Trumansburg, NY 14886-9214
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N602H, 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 King John H, an individual, certificate issued August 16, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 15, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N602H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air B-4000 (serial 1169, cancelled June 1, 1939). 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 N602H: Accident on October 2, 1999 at Indianapolis, IN: minor 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 EN-28 · operated under 091
The pilot's attempted operation of the helicopter with known deficiencies, and his improper autorotation to landing. Factors were one fouled spark plug and another partially failed spark plug in the same cylinder, and the construction area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00LA002 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