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N173

Enstrom F-28A

Valid Michigan

N173 is an Enstrom F-28A, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1974. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Grosse Ile, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 12, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Enstrom
Model
F-28A
Serial number
218
Type
Rotorcraft
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A12451 (octal 50222121)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 30, 2023
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
January 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 12, 1974
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00600791

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Shafer Robert T
Type
Co-owned
Address
9355 Island Dr
Grosse Ile, MI 48138-1426
Co-owners
Shafer Susan A T

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1996-05-16Schempp-Hirth K. G NIMBUS II · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data