Enstrom 280FX
N8900X is an Enstrom 280FX, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2012. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Rotorcraft LLC, an LLC in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 27 at 5:56 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom
- Model
- 280FX · all 280FXs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. A welded steel-tube frame under aluminium and fibreglass skins. This is how the Enstrom 280 Shark family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2135
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD · 190 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- AC47C2 (octal 53043702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 27, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 1, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01104380
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rotorcraft LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 928 Isola Cirella Loop
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403-6893
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
Connections how N8900X links to the rest of the register
- Enstrom 280 Shark 66 registered
- Enstrom 216 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 34 aircraft with this engine series · 190 hp
- Type certificate H1CE · held by Enstrom Helicopter CORP the
- Rotorcraft LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lake Havasu City, AZ 214 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Havasu City Airport · HII
- Arizona 8,435 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Enstrom 280 Shark 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Enstrom 280 Shark 35 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Enstrom 280 Shark 20 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming HIO-360-F1AD 13 reports since 1995
- Where N8900X is now · Last seen October 27 at 5:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N8900X, 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 Rotorcraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 27, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 2025, 13 years after the 2012 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8900X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182D (serial 18253300, cancelled June 14, 1991). 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 N8900X: Accident on January 26, 1991 at Show Low, AZ: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 182 · operated under 091
ENGINE FAILURE DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION. A FACTOR WAS INOPERATIVE FUEL GAUGES.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data