{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1978-06-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-07","city":"HIGDEN","country_code":"US","county_code":"023","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41553","engine_horsepower":205,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"HI0-360 SER","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":"2026-04-07","maker":"Enstrom Helicopter Corp","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3300505","mode_s_code":"53157351","mode_s_hex":"ACDEE9","model":"280C","n_number":"N9285","name":"NOVEMBER 9285 LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Port Orange","damage":"SUBS","date":"2021-08-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA21LA339","probable_cause":"The failure of the tail rotor drive shaft at the coupling due to torsionally applied shear stress.","registration":"N9285","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on August 21, 2021 at Port Orange, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"ODESSA","damage":"DEST","date":"1991-05-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"BFO91FA048","probable_cause":"THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO RECOVER FROM A STALL. CONTRIBUTING WAS AN INTENTIONAL STALL OF THE AIRCRAFT, PILOT INEXPEREINCE AND INADEQUATE ALTITUDE.","registration":"N9285","state":"DE","summary":"Accident on May 5, 1991 at Odessa, DE: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to November 9285 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 13, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1003 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9285 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":"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.","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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":3,"serial_number":"1003","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"775 BONDAIR RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Rotorcraft","type_aircraft_code":"6","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00470591","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9285","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"720679366"}