Vulcanair P68 OBSERVER 2
N19WL is a Vulcanair P68 OBSERVER 2, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to South Carolina Department Of Natural Resources, a government body in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2005 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated September 14, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vulcanair
- Model
- P68 OBSERVER 2
- Serial number
- 425-25/OB2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A167D1 (octal 50263721)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2005
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling; Other · September 14, 2006
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00138919
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- South Carolina Department Of Natural Resources
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1000 Assembly St Ste 302
Columbia, SC 29201-3117
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N19WL, 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 South Carolina Department Of Natural Resources, a government body, certificate issued April 15, 2005, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial surveying; forest; patrolling; other, dated September 14, 2006, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 425-25/OB2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N19WL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500 S (serial 3160, cancelled October 8, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N19WL: Accident on April 14, 2003 at Mount Pleasant, SC: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Aero Commander 500S · operated under 091
The improper refueling of the airplane by airport personnel with the incorrect fuel grade that resulted in a total loss in engine power on both engines during initial climb. A factor was the inadequate preflight inspection by the pilot in command.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL03TA078 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