{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-08-01","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-27","city":"LAKE HAVASU CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"015","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":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"helicopters","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-27","maker":"Enstrom","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ENSTROM","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3300506","mode_s_code":"53043702","mode_s_hex":"AC47C2","model":"280FX","n_number":"N8900X","name":"ROTORCRAFT LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"SHOW LOW","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-01-26","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"LAX91LA082","probable_cause":"ENGINE FAILURE DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION.  A FACTOR WAS INOPERATIVE FUEL GAUGES.","registration":"N8900X","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on January 26, 1991 at Show Low, AZ: minor injuries, destroyed.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rotorcraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 27, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2135 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","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 N8900X: Accident on January 26, 1991 at Show Low, AZ: minor injuries, destroyed. 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"2135","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AZ","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"928 ISOLA CIRELLA LOOP","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01104380","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8900X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2012,"zip":"864036893"}