Britten-Norman BN-2A
N866JA is a Britten-Norman BN-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Mcphillips Flying Service INC, a corporation in Beaver Island, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 24, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN-2A · all BN-2As and related versions
- Serial number
- 185
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 137 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE5EA (octal 52762752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 24, 1970
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00572411
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcphillips Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 36026 Melody Ln
Beaver Island, MI 49782
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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 N866JA, 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 Mcphillips Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 27, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 24, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 185 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N866JA 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 N866JA: Accident on November 13, 2021 at Beaver Island, MI: fatal, substantial damage (4 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: Britten-Norman BN-2A · operated under 135
The pilot's exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack during final approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and loss of control at an altitude too low to recover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22FA031 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
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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