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N14142

North American T-28A

Valid Texas

N14142 is a North American T-28A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Abilene, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 3, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
North American
Model
T-28A · all T-28As and related versions
Serial number
51-3756
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1820-86 · 1425 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1951
Cruising speed
208 mph
Transponder code
A0A966 (octal 50124546)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 20, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · May 3, 2019
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00161680

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Borchert Donald E
Type
Co-owned
Address
273 Handsome Jack Rd
Abilene, TX 79602-5543
Co-owners
Borchert Debra A

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1936-07-15Lige Eugene H LIGE SPORT · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N14142, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Borchert Donald E, a co-owned, certificate issued February 20, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 3, 2019, 68 years after the 1951 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51-3756 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N14142 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lige Eugene H LIGE SPORT (serial GL-1, cancelled July 15, 1936). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N14142: Accident on February 24, 1988 at Schoolcraft, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI88DEM01Accident on February 24, 1988 at Schoolcraft, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American T-28A · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data