Cirrus Design Corp SR20
N81EZ is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body in Battle Creek, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1686
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360-ES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AB077F (octal 52603577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 11, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00269639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 237 Helmer Rd N
Battle Creek, MI 49037-7917
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N81EZ, 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 Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body, certificate issued April 15, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 11, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1686 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81EZ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Parkman Stephen C VARI-EZE (serial 000001-1, cancelled March 8, 2001); Newland Grant A RUTAN VARI-EZE (serial 811, cancelled January 8, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N81EZ: Accident on December 18, 1998 at Tucson, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Parkman VARI-EZE · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to attain and maintain an adequate flying airspeed during the aircraft's maiden flight, which resulted in a stall/mush condition. Also causal was the pilot/builder's decision to modify the engine and the fuel system control microchip, which resulted in detonation and a severe reduction in power output, and led directly to the pilot's inability to attain and maintain airspeed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99FA052 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
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