{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-07-15","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development; Crew training; Market survey","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-05","city":"MENOMINEE","country_code":"US","county_code":"109","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41896","engine_horsepower":190,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"HIO-360-F1AD","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Enstrom","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ENSTROM","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3300412","mode_s_code":"50377466","mode_s_hex":"A1FF36","model":"F-28F","n_number":"N228F","name":"ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Menominee","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-08-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN11CA638","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain control of the helicopter during a hover.","registration":"N228F","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on August 29, 2011 at Menominee, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N228F is an Enstrom F-28F, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Enstrom Helicopter CORP, a corporation in Menominee, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training; market survey, dated July 15, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Enstrom Helicopter CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 5, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2026, 19 years after the 2007 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 819 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N228F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 20774, cancelled September 27, 1976). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N228F: Accident on August 29, 2011 at Menominee, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":3,"serial_number":"819","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2209 22ND ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00344149","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N228F","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2007,"zip":"498583515"}