Britten-Norman BN-2A-20
N4438 is a Britten-Norman BN-2A-20, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Spirit Air INC, a corporation in Salmon, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN-2A-20 · all BN-2A-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 766
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 92 mph
- Transponder code
- A55932 (octal 51254462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- September 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 24, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00870145
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spirit Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- C/O Gen Air
31 Hamner Dr
Salmon, ID 83467-5107
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4438, 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 Spirit Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 22, 2008, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 1985, 9 years after the 1976 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 766 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4438 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Alexander Aircraft Co COMBINATION EAGLEROC (serial 430, cancelled April 4, 1930). 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 N4438. 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 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