Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C
N9285 is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1978. It has 3 seats. It is registered to November 9285 LLC, an LLC in Higden, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 13, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Enstrom Helicopter Corp
- Model
- 280C · all 280Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1003
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HI0-360 SER · 205 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- ACDEE9 (octal 53157351)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 13, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00470591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- November 9285 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 775 Bondair Rd
Higden, AR 72067-9366
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.
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The public federal record on N9285, 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 November 9285 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 13, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9285 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]
2 NTSB records under N9285: Accident on August 21, 2021 at Port Orange, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 5, 1991 at Odessa, DE: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 280 · operated under 091
The failure of the tail rotor drive shaft at the coupling due to torsionally applied shear stress.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA339 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO RECOVER FROM A STALL. CONTRIBUTING WAS AN INTENTIONAL STALL OF THE AIRCRAFT, PILOT INEXPEREINCE AND INADEQUATE ALTITUDE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO91FA048 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data