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Britten-Norman BN-2B-26
N861VL is a Britten-Norman BN-2B-26, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Vieques Air Link INC, a corporation in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 27, 1991.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Vieques Air Link, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 6:40 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN-2B-26 · all BN-2B-26s 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
- 2155
- 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 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- ABD474 (octal 52752164)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 4, 2025
- 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 · November 27, 1991
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00523096
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vieques Air Link 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
- 1225 Ave Ponce de Leon Ste 905
San Juan, PR 00907-3915
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.
Connections how N861VL 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
- Vieques Air Link, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Vieques Air Link INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Juan, PR 173 aircraft registered in this town
- Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport · SIG
- Luis Munoz Marin International · SJU
- Puerto Rico 492 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 O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seal, broken · 2025-08-25
- Report filed on this aircraft: Brake Caliper, leaking · 2024-01-08
- Report filed on this aircraft: Brake Caliper, leaking · 2024-01-08
- Where N861VL is now · Last seen yesterday at 6:40 pm.
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The public federal record on N861VL, 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 Vieques Air Link INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 27, 1991, 7 years after the 1984 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 2155 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N861VL 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N861VL. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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