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N81WE

Embraer S A EMB-545

N81WE is an Embraer S A EMB-545, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2024. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Whelen Engineering Company INC, a corporation in Chester, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated December 19, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Embraer S A
Model
EMB-545 · all EMB-545s and related versions
Serial number
55010144
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · Honeywell AS907-3-1E · 7,638 lb thrust
Seats
11
Year built
2024
Transponder code
AB08FC (octal 52604374)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 16, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 28, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Transport · December 19, 2024
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
01480966

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Whelen Engineering Company INC
Type
Corporation
Address
51 Winthrop Rd
Chester, CT 06412-1036

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2019-02-27Piper PA-31T · Registration expired, pending cancellation
—Bell 206B · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N81WE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Whelen Engineering Company INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 16, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for transport, dated December 19, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55010144 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N81WE was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-7920060, cancelled February 27, 2019); Bell 206B (serial 3486, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N81WE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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