North American T-28B
N32257 is a North American T-28B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Luttrell, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 1995 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 30, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28B · all T-28Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 138129
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-1820 SER · 1475 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A378E5 (octal 50674345)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 1995
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · August 30, 1985
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00971803
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melton Ricky N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10612 Emory Rd
Luttrell, TN 37779-2934
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N32257, 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 Melton Ricky N, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 1995, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 30, 1985, 29 years after the 1956 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 138129 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N32257 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 10A (serial 7905, cancelled July 14, 1971). 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 N32257. 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