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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pilatus Britten-Norman Limited
- Model
- BN-2B-27
- Serial number
- 2125
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O-540-E4C5 · 250 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- ABE350 (octal 52761520)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 26, 2021
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01221360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1225 Ponce De Leon Av Ste 9055
San Juan, PR 00907
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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 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 …
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- 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