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Convair 440
N181FL is a Convair 440, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1956. It has 54 seats. It is registered to Ifl Group INC, a corporation in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 1995 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 16, 1969.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Convair
- Model
- 440 · all 440s 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 Convair 440 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
- 387
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Allison 501-D13 SER · 3750 hp
- Seats
- 54
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 234 mph
- Transponder code
- A144EB (octal 50242353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 1995
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 16, 1969
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00201083
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ifl Group 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
- 6860 S Service Dr
Waterford, MI 48327
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 N181FL links to the rest of the register
- Convair 440 5 registered
- Convair 46 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) 501-D13 series 9 aircraft with this engine series · 3750 hp
- Ifl Group INC 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Waterford, MI 167 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,221 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Convair 440 206 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) 501-D13 series 386 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Loop, shorted · 2020-11-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Hinge, cracked · 2019-11-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Release Cable, broken · 2016-04-04
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N181FL.json.
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The public federal record on N181FL, 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 Ifl Group INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 9, 1995, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 16, 1969, 13 years after the 1956 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 387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N181FL 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]
1 NTSB record under N181FL: Incident on September 22, 2005 at Kenosha, WI: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Convair Div. of Gen. Dynamics 440 · operated under 121
The flight crew failed to verify that the cargo was secured before takeoff.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data