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N2493P

Airborne XT 582

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMichigan

N2493P is an Airborne XT 582, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Traverse City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 11, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Airborne
Model
XT 582
Serial number
XT-582-04-CZ-017
Type
Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A2543D (octal 50452075)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 25, 2026
Expires
June 30, 2033
Last FAA action
June 25, 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 · September 11, 2007
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00371249

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mackey Sean M
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
20168 Davis Lake Rd
Traverse City, MI 49684-7905

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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

1984-03-27Piper PA-38-112 · Administratively canceled
1961-10-27Piper PA-18-150 · Valid registration

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2493P, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mackey Sean M, an individual, certificate issued June 25, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 11, 2007, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial XT-582-04-CZ-017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2493P was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-79A1009, cancelled March 27, 1984); Piper PA-18-150 (serial 18-4301, cancelled October 27, 1961). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2493P. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data