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Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited BN-2B-27
N865VL is a Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited BN-2B-27, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1987. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 26, 2021.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Vieques Air Link, Inc., 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
- Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited
- Model
- BN-2B-27
- Serial number
- 2125
- 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 O-540-E4C5 · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- ABE350 (octal 52761520)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reportedFAA registration status code 7 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2026
- 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 · March 26, 2021
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01221360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1225 Ponce de Leon Av Ste 9055
San Juan, PR 00907
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 N865VL links to the rest of the register
- Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited 1 aircraft on the register
- Vieques Air Link, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming O-540-E4C5 15 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- San Juan, PR 173 aircraft registered in this town
- Fernando Luis Ribas Dominicci Airport · SIG
- Luis Munoz Marin International · SJU
- Puerto Rico 493 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-E4C5 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-E4C5 139 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Brake Caliper, weak · 2024-07-29
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N865VL.json.
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The public federal record on N865VL, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 26, 2021, 34 years after the 1987 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 2125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N865VL 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 N865VL: Accident on February 22, 2026 at Isla de Culebra, PR: 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: Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited BN-2B-27 · operated under 135
On February 22, 2026, at 0915 Atlantic standard time, a Pilatus Brittan-Norman Limited, BN-2B-27 Islander, N865VL, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at Benjamin Rivera Noriega Airport (CPX), Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico. The airline transport pilot and eight passengers were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 air taxi flight. According to the operator, the flight departed from Jose Aponte de la Torre Airport (RVR), Ceiba, Puerto Rico, and was destined for CPX. Following an uneventful landing at CPX, the airplane …
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data