Enstrom 280FX
N8631P is an Enstrom 280FX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 3 seats. It is registered to Sharkeys Helicopters INC, a corporation in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- 280FX · all 280FXs and related versions
- Serial number
- 2009
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABDC85 (octal 52756205)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 24, 1986
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00483506
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sharkeys Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 5471
West Lebanon, NH 03784-5471
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8631P, 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 Sharkeys Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 17, 2026, expires February 28, 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 2009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8631P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-260 (serial 24-4075, cancelled December 14, 1964). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8631P. 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