Cessna U206E
N2272X is a Cessna U206E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Southern Seaplane INC, a corporation in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 1989 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 17, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- U206E · all U206Es and related versions
- Serial number
- U206-01556
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FDB6 (octal 50376666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 1989
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 17, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00411992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Seaplane INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1 Couquille Dr
Belle Chasse, LA 70037
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 N2272X, 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 Southern Seaplane INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 31, 1989, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 17, 1978, 8 years after the 1970 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 U206-01556 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2272X 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 N2272X: Accident on August 13, 2014 at Braithwaite, LA: minor 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: Cessna U206E · operated under 135
The pilot's mismanagement of the fuel system, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation and the subsequent forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14LA425 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