North American T-28A
N228AF is a North American T-28A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carthage, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 17, 1980. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28A · all T-28As and related versions
- Serial number
- 49-1547
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1300 SER · 700 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FEBF (octal 50377277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 17, 1980
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00330862
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hester Richard H JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 235 Burle Rd
Carthage, NC 28327-7169
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 1
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N228AF, 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 Hester Richard H JR, an individual, certificate issued March 7, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. 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 49-1547 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N228AF according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N228AF. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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