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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Dornier Luftfahrt Gmbh DO 228-212
N228SD is a Dornier Luftfahrt Gmbh DO 228-212, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1991. It has 20 seats. It is registered to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; market survey, dated August 6, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 3:37 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dornier Luftfahrt Gmbh
- Model
- DO 228-212
- Serial number
- 8200
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Honeywell TPE331-10 · 940 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 20
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A2004D (octal 50400115)
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 27, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 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 · Research and development; Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 16 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 6, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01489022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC
- 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
- 3550 General Atomics Ct
San Diego, CA 92121-1122
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N228SD links to the rest of the register
- Dornier Luftfahrt Gmbh 26 aircraft on the register
- Honeywell TPE331-10 13 aircraft with this engine series · 940 hp
- Type certificate A16EU · held by General Atomics Aerotec Systems GMBH
- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC 43 aircraft in the fleet
- San Diego, CA 685 aircraft registered in this town
- Brown Field Municipal · SDM
- Montgomery-Gibbs Executive · MYF
- San Diego International · SAN
- California 27,713 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Honeywell TPE331-10 27 airworthiness directives
- Where N228SD is now · Last seen Monday at 3:37 pm.
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The public federal record on N228SD, 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 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 27, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 6, 2026, 35 years after the 1991 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 8200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N228SD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell UH-1H (serial 71-20318, cancelled March 22, 2018). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N228SD. 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 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data