Britten Norman BN 2A MKIII 2
N869VL is a Britten Norman BN 2A MKIII 2, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Vieques Air Link INC, a corporation in Vieques, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 1989 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; transport, dated July 9, 1985.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten Norman
- Model
- BN 2A MKIII 2 · all BN 2A MKIII 2s 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
- 1048
- 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, 3 motors · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- ABF22C (octal 52771054)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 1989
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- 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 · Normal; TransportFAA certificate purpose code NT (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 9, 1985
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00202695
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
- PO Box 1567
Vieques, PR
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N869VL links to the rest of the register
- Britten-Norman BN-2 54 registered
- Britten Norman 3 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Vieques Air Link INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Vieques, PR 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Puerto Rico 493 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
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The public federal record on N869VL, 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 December 1, 1989, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; transport, dated July 9, 1985, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N869VL 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 N869VL. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data