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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Boufford Charles J VP-2
N42189 is a Boufford Charles J VP-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Acs Aviation LLC, an LLC in Burlington, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 4, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boufford Charles J
- Model
- VP-2
- Serial number
- V2-10-79CB
- 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 · Revmaster 2100 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A502E8 (octal 51201350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2023
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 4, 1993
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00031724
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Acs Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 50 S Cove Rd
Burlington, VT 05401-5440
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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 1
Connections how N42189 links to the rest of the register
- Boufford Charles J 1 aircraft on the register
- Revmaster 2100 90 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Acs Aviation LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Burlington, VT 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Patrick Leahy Burlington International · BTV
- Vermont 676 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N42189.json.
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The public federal record on N42189, 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 Acs Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 31, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 4, 1993, 13 years after the 1980 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 V2-10-79CB for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42189 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 14431, cancelled July 20, 1966). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N42189. 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 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data