Britten-Norman BN-2A-20
N6561B 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 August 18, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 11, 1991.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Gem Air, LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN-2A-20 · all BN-2A-20s 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
- 520
- 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 IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 92 mph
- Transponder code
- A8A581 (octal 52122601)
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 18, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- September 10, 2024
- 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 11, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00304822
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spirit Air 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
- C/O Gem 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
Connections how N6561B 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
- Gem Air, LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,221 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Spirit Air INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Salmon, ID 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Hoodoo Meadows Airport · 4D2
- Lemhi County · SMN
- Idaho 4,200 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 IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6561B.json.
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The public federal record on N6561B, 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 August 18, 1999, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 1991, 15 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 520 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6561B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20A (serial 1231, cancelled August 18, 1988). 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]
2 NTSB records under N6561B: Accident on July 15, 2007 at Stanley, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 29, 1986 at Titusville, FL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Britten-Norman BN-2A-20 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to verify that the airplane was refueled, which resulted in a loss of engine power from both engines due to fuel exhaustion and a forced landing. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data