{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-12-10","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-10-25","city":"BEACH LAKE","country_code":"US","county_code":"127","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41889","engine_horsepower":205,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"HIO-360-C1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-10-25","maker":"Enstrom Helicopter Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3300505","mode_s_code":"50735272","mode_s_hex":"A3BABA","model":"280C","n_number":"N3398M","name":"MOTT WILLIAM R","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Ruidoso","damage":"SUBS","date":"2014-03-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN14CA164","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to adjust the engine's fuel-air mixture and decision to takeoff in high density attitude conditions which degraded the airplane's performance.","registration":"N3398M","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on March 19, 2014 at Ruidoso, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3398M is an Enstrom Helicopter Corp 280C, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1976. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 10, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mott William R, an individual, certificate issued October 25, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 10, 2025, 49 years after the 1976 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 1037 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3398M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-201 (serial 28R-7837113, cancelled January 4, 2018); Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2249, cancelled May 9, 1957). 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 N3398M: Accident on March 19, 2014 at Ruidoso, NM: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":3,"serial_number":"1037","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"115 WELCOME LAKE ESTATES LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01469338","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3398M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"184057722"}