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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Brooks Jack C EARTHSTAR ODYSSEY
N228S is a Brooks Jack C EARTHSTAR ODYSSEY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 14, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Brooks Jack C
- Model
- EARTHSTAR ODYSSEY
- Serial number
- JB001
- 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 · Hks 700E · 60 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Kit
- EARTHSTAR ODYSSEY
- Transponder code
- A20049 (octal 50400111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 23, 2026
- 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 · November 14, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01014402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Campbell Caleb J
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12856 N Highway 183
Ste B Pmb 1270
Austin, TX 78750-3222 - Co-owners
- Bacastow Robert I
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N228S links to the rest of the register
- Brooks Jack C 1 aircraft on the register
- HKS 700E 155 aircraft with this engine series · 60 hp
- Austin, TX 790 aircraft registered in this town
- Austin Executive · EDC
- Austin-Bergstrom International · AUS
- San Marcos Regional · HYI
- Texas 29,946 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N228S.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N228S, 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 Campbell Caleb J, a co-owned, certificate issued March 23, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 14, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JB001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N228S 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N228S. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data