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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Southern Seaplane, INC., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 1:58 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- U206E · all U206Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna U206 Stationair 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
- U206-01556
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FDB6 (octal 50376666)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 1989
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 17, 1978
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00411992
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Seaplane INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N2272X links to the rest of the register
- Cessna U206 Stationair 798 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Southern Seaplane, INC. · charter operator
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Southern Seaplane INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Belle Chasse, LA 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Louisiana 3,735 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna U206 Stationair 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna U206 Stationair 791 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna U206 Stationair 516 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
- Where N2272X is now · Last seen October 16 at 1:58 pm.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data