Enstrom 280FX
N713CH is an Enstrom 280FX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 10, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- 280FX · all 280FXs 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 280 Shark 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
- 2037
- 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 HIO-360-F1AD · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A9876C (octal 52303554)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2026
- 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 · October 10, 2006
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00179199
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hopkins David Martin
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 116 Big Springs Rd
Bell Buckle, TN 37020-4701 - Co-owners
- Hopkins Adah Marie
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 1
Connections how N713CH links to the rest of the register
- Enstrom 280 Shark 65 registered
- Enstrom 215 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-F1AD 34 aircraft with this engine series · 190 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- Bell Buckle, TN 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Tennessee 6,516 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Enstrom 280 Shark 35 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 13 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N713CH, 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 Hopkins David Martin, a co-owned, certificate issued October 8, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. 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 2037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N713CH according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 8, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N713CH. 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 8, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 8, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 8, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 8, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data