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N86198

Enstrom F-28C

Valid Oregon

N86198 is an Enstrom F-28C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1981. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pendleton, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 21, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Enstrom
Model
F-28C · all F-28Cs and related versions
Serial number
521-2
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
ABD642 (octal 52753102)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 30, 2018
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 21, 1981
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00652481

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Styer David B
Type
Individual
Address
4906 NW A Ave
Pendleton, OR 97801-4632

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

1974-09-06Cessna 337D · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N86198, 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 Styer David B, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 21, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 521-2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N86198 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 337D (serial 337-1109, cancelled September 6, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N86198: Accident on August 18, 1993 at Seattle, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

SEA93FA178Accident on August 18, 1993 at Seattle, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Enstrom F-28C · operated under 091

SHORTED MAGNETO CONDENSERS. FACTORS INCLUDE A HIDDEN OBSTRUCTION IN THE LANDING AREA, AND A REDUCTION IN ROTOR RPM FROM ATTEMPTING TO AVOID THE OBSTRUCTION.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA93FA178 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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