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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Convair
- Model
- 440 · all 440s and related versions
- Serial number
- 387
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 1995
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · December 16, 1969
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00201083
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ifl Group INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05IA273 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data