Spears Esten AVID MK IV
N2422A is a Spears Esten AVID MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reunion, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 11, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Spears Esten
- Model
- AVID MK IV
- Serial number
- 1353E
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A23A0C (octal 50435014)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 11, 1996
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00575731
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sweeney Sean M JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7820 Whitemarsh Way
Reunion, FL 34747-6407
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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 2
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The public federal record on N2422A, 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 Sweeney Sean M JR, an individual, certificate issued August 5, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 11, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1353E for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2422A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-135 (serial 18-1928, cancelled March 11, 1966); Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3878A0678, cancelled date not given). 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 N2422A: Accident on January 15, 1983 at Barstow, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data