{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2013-04-29","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2022-12-14","city":"MENOMINEE","country_code":"US","county_code":"109","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"99999","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"AMA/EXPR","engine_model":"UNKNOWN ENG","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":"3300509","mode_s_code":"50547216","mode_s_hex":"A2CE8E","model":"280FXT","n_number":"N280FX","name":"ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"MENOMINEE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1988-07-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI88LA168","probable_cause":"","registration":"N280FX","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on July 16, 1988 at Menominee, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N280FX is an Enstrom 280FXT, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1984. 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 14, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 29, 2013.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Enstrom Helicopter CORP, a corporation, certificate issued December 14, 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 April 29, 2013, 29 years after the 1984 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 2001 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N280FX according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N280FX: Accident on July 16, 1988 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":"2001","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":"Turboshaft","type_engine_code":"3","unique_id":"00142734","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N280FX","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1984,"zip":"498583515"}