Enstrom F-28F
N86238 is an Enstrom F-28F, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1985. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elgin, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- F-28F · all F-28Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 737
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ABD927 (octal 52754447)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 25, 1985
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00071675
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crawford Thomas P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11N415 Stonecrest Ct
Elgin, IL 60124-8160
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 N86238, 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 Crawford Thomas P, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 737 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N86238 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-42, cancelled May 21, 1965). 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]
2 NTSB records under N86238: Accident on April 5, 2003 at Monroe, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 14, 1998 at West Chicago, IL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Enstrom F-28F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter. A contributing factor was the crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW03LA122 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Enstrom F28 · operated under 091
the student pilot attempting a tailwind landing and improper compensation for the wind resulting in too high of a sink rate and the hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA166 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