Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2002 SIERRA
N218D is a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2002 SIERRA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whispering Pines, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 7, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna
- Model
- P2002 SIERRA · all P2002 SIERRAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 134
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A1D785 (octal 50353605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · February 7, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00220879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Geffen Arthur B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12 Fairway Dr
Whispering Pines, NC 28327-9381
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N218D, 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 Geffen Arthur B, an individual, certificate issued July 6, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated February 7, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N218D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Arion Aircraft Llc LIGHTNING LS-1 (serial 152, cancelled February 23, 2017); Bensen B-8M (serial D-6419, cancelled July 14, 2009). 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 N218D: Accident on December 3, 2016 at Goshen, IN: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arion Aircraft LLC LIGHTNING LS-1 · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and the subsequent forced landing on a rough/soft field.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN17LA048 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