Wilson SMITH MINIPLANE
N28 is a Wilson SMITH MINIPLANE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Homer Glen, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 1986 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 29, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wilson
- Model
- SMITH MINIPLANE
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A2CBA1 (octal 50545641)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 1986
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 29, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00740243
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- G Gerald Schiera DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13665 W Dublin Dr
Homer Glen, IL 60491-9119 - Co-owners
- G Gerald Company
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
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The public federal record on N28, 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 G Gerald Schiera DBA, an individual, certificate issued January 24, 1986, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 29, 1977, 15 years after the 1962 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N28 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C18S (serial 4225, cancelled April 14, 1947). 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 N28. 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 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