North American T-28B
N28XT is a North American T-28B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to East Iowa Air INC, a corporation in Bennett, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 24, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28B · all T-28Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 138339
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A2CDC1 (octal 50546701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 17, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 24, 1989
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00214501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- East Iowa Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1937 Highway 130
Bennett, IA 52721-9669
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N28XT, 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 East Iowa Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 17, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 24, 1989, 31 years after the 1958 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 138339 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N28XT 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]
1 NTSB record under N28XT: Accident on August 11, 2025 at Monticello, IA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 T-28B · operated under 091
On August 11, 2025, about 1505 Central daylight time, a North American T-28B airplane, N28XT, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Monticello, Iowa. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to witnesses, the pilot reported, over the Monticello Regional Airport’s Common Traffic Advisory Frequency (CTAF), that he was experiencing a propeller governor failure, and he was returning to the airport. Shortly thereafter, he reported a total loss of engine power, and that he was at…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data