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N228BS

Cirrus Design Corp SF50

Valid Virginia

N228BS is a Cirrus Design Corp SF50, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2018. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Caretek Aviation LLC, an LLC in Great Falls, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2018.

Aircraft

Maker
Cirrus Design Corp
Model
SF50 · all SF50s and related versions
Serial number
0040
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbofan, 1 motor · Williams FJ33-5A · 2,000 lb thrust
Seats
7
Year built
2018
Transponder code
A1FEE3 (octal 50377343)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 23, 2018
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 21, 2018
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01268390

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Caretek Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
10105 High Hill Ct
Great Falls, VA 22066-3541

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N228BS, 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 Caretek Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 23, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N228BS 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 N228BS. 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