Alon A-2A
N818SW is an Alon A-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sanibel, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Alon
- Model
- A-2A · all A-2As and related versions
- Serial number
- B-279
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- AB28B9 (octal 52624271)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 13, 1968
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00663245
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Abbott Don W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1413 Causey Ct
Sanibel, FL 33957-3642 - Co-owners
- Longenhagen John H A
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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 N818SW, 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 Abbott Don W, a co-owned, certificate issued August 31, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial B-279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N818SW 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 N818SW: Accident on December 19, 2025 at Winter Haven, FL: 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: Alon A-2A · operated under 091
On December 19, 2025, about 0918 EST, an Alon A-2A, N818SW, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at Winter Haven Regional Airport (GIF), Winter Haven, Florida. The commercial pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14?Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot stated that he experienced no issues with the rudder control system while taxiing prior to departure. After takeoff the flight proceeded uneventfully to GIF with no rudder flight control issues in-flight. The airplane was landed smoothly in the first 200 ft of the runway a…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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