North American T-28B
N138RR is a North American T-28B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wpp Nautical LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 2, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28B · all T-28Bs 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 North American T-28 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
- 138158
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A09A70 (octal 50115160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 2, 1986
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00260487
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wpp Nautical LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 415 N Benton Ave
Helena, MT 59601-5041
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N138RR links to the rest of the register
- North American T-28 206 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-1820 series 185 aircraft with this engine series · 1475 hp
- Wpp Nautical LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Helena, MT 536 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,045 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the North American T-28 6 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Wright R-1820 series 12 reports since 1995
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N138RR, 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 Wpp Nautical LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 28, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 138158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N138RR 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 N138RR. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data