Britten-Norman BN-2 ISLANDER
N55JA is a Britten-Norman BN-2 ISLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 10 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Camarillo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 22, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN-2 ISLANDER · all BN-2 ISLANDERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 295
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 137 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FDDB (octal 51576733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 22, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00433355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Oberman Mark
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 283 Crestview Ave
Camarillo, CA 93010-8355 - Co-owners
- Oberman Janie
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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 N55JA, 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 Oberman Mark, a co-owned, certificate issued January 18, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 22, 1972, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 295 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55JA 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 N55JA: Accident on January 8, 1994 at Santa Rosa Isl, CA: no 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: Britten-Norman BN2A-8 ISLANDER · operated under 135
A FAILURE OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND TO MAINTAIN A PROPER GLIDE PATH TO THE RUNWAY AND HIS MISJUDGEMENT OF THE TOUCHDOWN POINT THAT RESULTED IN AN UNDERSHOOT AND SUBSEQUENT HARD LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94LA111 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