Enstrom F280
N8617Y is an Enstrom F280, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pepperell, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 1994 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 29, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- F280
- Serial number
- 1500
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Turboshaft, 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD5F2 (octal 52752762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 1994
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 29, 1981
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00020192
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burton David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 317
Pepperell, MA 01463
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8617Y, 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 Burton David A, an individual, certificate issued March 17, 1994, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 29, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1500 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8617Y according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8617Y. 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 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