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N218SF

North American T-28B

Valid Illinois

N218SF is a North American T-28B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Antioch, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 14, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
North American
Model
T-28B · all T-28Bs and related versions
Serial number
138280
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1955
Cruising speed
208 mph
Transponder code
A1D8D0 (octal 50354320)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 20, 2016
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · August 14, 1998
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00830295

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pelland John J
Type
Individual
Address
24720 W North Ave
Antioch, IL 60002-8951

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N218SF, 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 Pelland John J, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 14, 1998, 43 years after the 1955 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 138280 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N218SF according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N218SF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 August 27, 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