Colonial C-2
N281B is a Colonial C-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sycamore, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 1993 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 15, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Colonial
- Model
- C-2 · all C-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 140
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- A2D1CB (octal 50550713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 1993
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 15, 1959
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00680283
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anderson David R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 558
Sycamore, IL 60178-0558
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N281B, 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 Anderson David R, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 1993, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 15, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N281B 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]
1 NTSB record under N281B: Accident on May 7, 1984 at Stone Lake, WI: fatal, minor damage (1 fatal). 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: Colonial C-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84FA180 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
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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