Christen Industries Inc A-1
N2866B is a Christen Industries Inc A-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 4, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Christen Industries Inc
- Model
- A-1 · all A-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2E771 (octal 50563561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 4, 1987
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00115530
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bulger Edward P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 58 Temple St
Newburyport, MA 01950-2743
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2866B, 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 Bulger Edward P, an individual, certificate issued December 2, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2866B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-2 (serial 1983, cancelled date not given). 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 N2866B: Accident on February 2, 1996 at Lakeview, OR: minor 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: Christen Industries A-1 · operated under PUBU
failure of the pilot to maintain altitude/clearance from the terrain (snow covered, frozen lake). Factors relating to the accident were: the pilot's attention being diverted to a perceived safety hazard, and lack of visual cues for pilot perception of clearance from the lake surface.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96TA046 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