Britten-Norman BN2A-26 ISLANDER
N403WB is a Britten-Norman BN2A-26 ISLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 10 seats. It is registered to New England Airlines INC, a corporation in Westerly, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2000 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 26, 2000.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of New England Airlines, Inc, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 9:58 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN2A-26 ISLANDER · all BN2A-26 ISLANDERs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Britten-Norman BN-2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 46
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1969
- Transponder code
- A4B9BC (octal 51134674)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2000
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- February 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 26, 2000
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00275840
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New England Airlines 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
- 56 Airport Rd
Westerly, RI 02891-3427
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.
Connections how N403WB links to the rest of the register
- Britten-Norman BN-2 54 registered
- Britten-Norman 51 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- New England Airlines, Inc · charter operator
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- New England Airlines INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Westerly, RI 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Westerly State Airport · WST
- Rhode Island 361 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Britten-Norman BN-2 66 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Britten-Norman BN-2 90 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Britten-Norman BN-2 162 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
- Where N403WB is now · Last seen Thursday at 9:58 am.
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The public federal record on N403WB, 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 New England Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 12, 2000, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 26, 2000, 31 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N403WB 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 N403WB. 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