Britten-Norman BN2A-26 ISLANDER
N880GL is a Britten-Norman BN2A-26 ISLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 10 seats. It is registered to New England Airlines INC, a corporation in Westerly, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Britten-Norman
- Model
- BN2A-26 ISLANDER · all BN2A-26 ISLANDERs 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
- 2020
- 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-A4C5 · 250 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC1E76 (octal 53017166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 4, 2024
- 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 · October 11, 2019
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00150070
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New England Airlines 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
- 58 Airport Rd
Westerly, RI 02891-3402
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N880GL 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
- Lycoming O-540-A4C5 1 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- New England Airlines INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Westerly, RI 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Westerly State Airport · WST
- Rhode Island 361 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-A4C5 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-A4C5 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N880GL, 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 New England Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 4, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N880GL 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 N880GL. 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