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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Cargill David Hutton WEIGHT SHIFT CONTOL
N2728R is a Cargill David Hutton WEIGHT SHIFT CONTOL, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hobe Sound, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 20, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cargill David Hutton
- Model
- WEIGHT SHIFT CONTOL
- Serial number
- 001DC
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2B16A (octal 50530552)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 20, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00416729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davolt John W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8547 SE Oleander St
Hobe Sound, FL 33455-5136
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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 N2728R links to the rest of the register
- Cargill David Hutton 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582 series 1,192 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Hobe Sound, FL 31 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N2728R, 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 Davolt John W, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001DC for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2728R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 340 (serial 67, cancelled January 27, 1997). 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 N2728R. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data