Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280F
N811Z is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280F, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1982. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Logan, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2006 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280F · all 280Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1508
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- AB0F52 (octal 52607522)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2006
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 29, 1982
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00852491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhoads Timothy C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10994 540 Loop
Logan, NM 88426
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 N811Z, 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 August 30, 2006, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1508 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N811Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas C-47D (serial 43-49247, cancelled April 24, 1970). 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 N811Z: Accident on March 15, 2006 at Peetz, 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 280F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control while maneuvering resulting in an impact with terrain. Contributing factors were the gusty winds, downdrafts, and box canyon.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN06CA048 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