North American/Kenney NA-260
N2496 is a North American/Kenney NA-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 2 seats. It is registered to T-28 INC, a corporation in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 20, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American/Kenney
- Model
- NA-260
- Serial number
- 49-1496
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1949
- Transponder code
- A25498 (octal 50452230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 20, 1990
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00114921
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- T-28 INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 800 N State St Ste 304
Dover, DE 19901-3925
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 N2496, 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 T-28 INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 21, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 20, 1990, 41 years after the 1949 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 49-1496 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2496 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Standard Aircraft Corp STANDARD J-1 (serial J1, cancelled October 5, 1927). 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 N2496: Accident on December 7, 1991 at Bermuda Dunes, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: North American-Kenney T-28D-5, NA-260 · operated under 091
AN INADEQUATE ANNUAL INSPECTION PERFORMED BY THE MECHANIC. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE DETERIORATION OF THE FUEL BLADDER SELF-SEALING LINING AND PARTIAL BLOCKAGE OF THE FUEL SCREENS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA061 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