Cessna 182T
N2439B is a Cessna 182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 10, 2001. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182T · all 182Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 18280955
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A23EB9 (octal 50437271)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 10, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00253834
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Bortel Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4912 S Collins St
Arlington, TX 76018-1135
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 2
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2439B, 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 Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 10, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280955 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2439B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3879A0062, cancelled September 7, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (August 31, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N2439B: Accident on January 12, 1989 at Terra Ceia, FL: 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: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
THE IMPROPER IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION BY THE STUDENT PILOT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: TAILWIND CONDITIONS DURING THE LANDING AND THE PROXIMITY OF THE DITCH TO THE SELECTED LANDING AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA89LA068 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