Northrop/Thornton T-38A
N38FT is a Northrop/Thornton T-38A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Boeing CO, a corporation in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2000 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; crew training, dated July 20, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Northrop/Thornton
- Model
- T-38A
- Serial number
- 5228
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · Ge J85-5H · 3,850 lb thrust
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Transponder code
- A45980 (octal 51054600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2000
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Crew training · July 20, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00504591
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boeing CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Attn Mike Manning M/C 17-95
1901 Oakesdale Ave SW
Renton, WA 98057-2623
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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 N38FT, 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 Boeing CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 22, 2000, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 20, 2026, 65 years after the 1961 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 5228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N38FT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N38FT. 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