{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1982-07-21","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1990-01-12","city":"VIEQUES","country_code":"RQ","county_code":"000","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-05-06","maker":"Britten-Norman","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BRITTEN-NORMAN","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1520350","mode_s_code":"52140504","mode_s_hex":"A8C144","model":"BN-2B-26","n_number":"N663VL","name":"VIEQUES AIR LINK INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Isla De Vieques","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-06-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA02LA119","probable_cause":"the failure of both pilots to see and avoid, also causal was the failure of the pilot of the Britten-Norman Islander (N663VL) to yield right of way to an aircraft in the traffic pattern.","registration":"N663VL","state":"PR","summary":"Accident on June 20, 2002 at Isla De Vieques, PR: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N663VL is a Britten-Norman BN-2B-26, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. 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 January 12, 1990 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 21, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Vieques Air Link INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 12, 1990, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2110 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N663VL according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N663VL: Accident on June 20, 2002 at Isla De Vieques, PR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":10,"serial_number":"2110","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"PR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1567","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00462926","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N663VL","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"007651567"}