North American T-28A
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28A · all T-28As 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
- 51-3756
- 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-1820-86 · 1425 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A0A966 (octal 50124546)
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 20, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2023
- 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 3, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00161680
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Borchert Donald e
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 273 Handsome Jack Rd
Abilene, TX 79602-5543 - Co-owners
- Borchert Debra A
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N14142 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-1820-86 22 aircraft with this engine series · 1425 hp
- Type certificate 1A18 · held by The Boeing Company
- Abilene, TX 110 aircraft registered in this town
- Abilene Regional · ABI
- Texas 29,938 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the North American T-28 6 supplemental type certificates
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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.
Valid registration to Borchert Donald e, a co-owned, certificate issued February 20, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 51-3756 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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]
1 NTSB record under N14142: Accident on February 24, 1988 at Schoolcraft, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American T-28A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data