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Consolidated Vultee 28-5ACF
N222FT is a Consolidated Vultee 28-5ACF, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 25 seats. It is registered to Pby LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1989.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- 28-5ACF · all 28-5ACFs 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 Consolidated Vultee 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
- 11074
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 25
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 118 mph
- Transponder code
- A1E8FE (octal 50364376)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 17, 1989
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00252888
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pby 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
- C/O Delaware & Yacht Registry LTD
108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N222FT links to the rest of the register
- Consolidated Vultee 28 9 registered
- Consolidated Vultee 115 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 116 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Pby LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Consolidated Vultee 28 28 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N222FT, 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 Pby LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 17, 1989, 45 years after the 1944 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 11074 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N222FT 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]
1 NTSB record under N222FT: Accident on October 31, 2025 at Dayton, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Consolidated Vultee 28-5ACF · operated under 091
The collapse of the left main landing gear due to the fatigue fracture of the lower landing gear actuator bolt.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data