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N228PD

Duperron David E PA-18 SUPERCUB

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N228PD is a Duperron David E PA-18 SUPERCUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bill Sattler Memorial Foundation for Aerospace Edu, a corporation in Loudon, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 3, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Duperron David E
Model
PA-18 SUPERCUB
Serial number
05-098
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Mattituck TMX 360 · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Kit
SMITH AVIATION PA-18 (SUPER CUB)
Transponder code
A20002 (octal 50400002)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 25, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 25, 2025
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 3, 2007
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00312279

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bill Sattler Memorial Foundation for Aerospace Edu
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
6627 Huffs Ferry Rd N
Loudon, TN 37774-5909

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N228PD links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Loudon, TN 27 aircraft registered in this town
  • Tennessee 6,535 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N228PD, 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 Bill Sattler Memorial Foundation for Aerospace Edu, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 3, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 05-098 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N228PD 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 N228PD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data