Britten-Norman BN-2A-27
N138LW is a Britten-Norman BN-2A-27, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Island Air Charters INC, a corporation in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1995.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Island Air Charters INC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 9 at 6:17 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN-2A-27 · all BN-2A-27s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Britten-Norman BN-2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 138
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A099F8 (octal 50114770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 3, 1995
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00865512
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Island Air Charters INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2321 NW 55Th Ct Hangar 18
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33309
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.
Connections how N138LW links to the rest of the register
- Britten-Norman BN-2 54 registered
- Britten-Norman 51 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Island Air Charters INC · charter operator
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Island Air Charters INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ft Lauderdale, FL 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Britten-Norman BN-2 66 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Britten-Norman BN-2 90 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Britten-Norman BN-2 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
- Where N138LW is now · Last seen October 9 at 6:17 pm.
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The public federal record on N138LW, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Island Air Charters INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 7, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 1995, 17 years after the 1978 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N138LW according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N138LW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data