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Boeing N2S-3
N2158P is a Boeing N2S-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Nick Franke LLC, an LLC in Jacksonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 26, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- N2S-3 · all N2S-3s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Stearman: welded steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric over all of it. This is how the Boeing N2 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
- 75-6861
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A1CF93 (octal 50347623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- September 11, 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 · November 26, 1955
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00461502
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nick Franke LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4284 Arkansas Highway 294
Jacksonville, AR 72076-8284
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N2158P links to the rest of the register
- Boeing N2 16 registered
- Boeing 6,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Nick Franke LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Jacksonville, AR 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Arkansas 3,495 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing N2 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2158P.json.
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The public federal record on N2158P, 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 Nick Franke LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 1, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75-6861 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2158P 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]
2 NTSB records under N2158P: Accident on July 22, 2020 at Jacksonville, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 13, 1988 at Benton, AR: no injuries, substantial 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stearman N2S 3 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to adequately monitor his fuel quantity during flight, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a total loss of engine power.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stearman B75N1 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data