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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Gippsland GA200
N280GA is a Gippsland GA200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Cavanaugh Flying Service INC, a corporation in Minden, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2012 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 24, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsland
- Model
- GA200
- Serial number
- 2009825F
- 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 · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A2CE92 (octal 50547222)
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 27, 2012
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 24, 1998
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00067171
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cavanaugh Flying Service 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
- 972 M Rd
Minden, NE 68959-6001
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N280GA links to the rest of the register
- Gippsland 23 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Cavanaugh Flying Service INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Minden, NE 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Pioneer Village Field · 0V3
- Nebraska 2,947 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, failed · 2001-04-18
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N280GA.json.
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The public federal record on N280GA, 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 Cavanaugh Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 27, 2012, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 24, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2009825F for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280GA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N280GA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data