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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Wilkinson Neil A FLIGHTSTAR SC
N2490A is a Wilkinson Neil A FLIGHTSTAR SC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cookeville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 24, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilkinson Neil A
- Model
- FLIGHTSTAR SC
- Serial number
- SC001
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Hks 700E · 60 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A253C7 (octal 50451707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 24, 2007
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00371949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haynes Donald e
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 445 Womack Ave
Cookeville, TN 38501-2760
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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
Connections how N2490A links to the rest of the register
- Wilkinson Neil A 2 aircraft on the register
- HKS 700E 155 aircraft with this engine series · 60 hp
- Cookeville, TN 59 aircraft registered in this town
- Tennessee 6,533 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2490A.json.
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The public federal record on N2490A, 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 Haynes Donald e, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SC001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2490A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-78A0710, cancelled February 7, 2005); Piper PA-18 (serial 18-1958, cancelled December 4, 1970). 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 N2490A: Accident on April 26, 1985 at Monroe, NC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data