North American T-28B
N228MC 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 Wildcat Fm-2 INC Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 26, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28B · all T-28Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 138301
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1820-86 · 1425 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FFCF (octal 50377717)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 26, 2017
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00095052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wildcat Fm-2 INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403-A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N228MC, 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 Wildcat Fm-2 INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued May 13, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 2017, 62 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 138301 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N228MC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson David B AVID FLYER (serial 228, cancelled August 9, 1994). 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 N228MC: Accident on July 21, 1987 at Tomah, WI: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson AVID FLYER · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI87DEP10 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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