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N4028K

Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1

N4028K is a Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spokane, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Spirit Engineering Inc
Model
SE-1 · all SE-1s and related versions
Serial number
025
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A4B789 (octal 51133611)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 8, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 8, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01518878

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Maridon Joseph R
Type
Co-owned
Address
9212 E Frederick Ave
Spokane, WA 99206-4303
Co-owners
Maridon Betty L

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 1

2026-09-11Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 2

2018-01-18Hiller UH-12E · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1955-10-04North American NAVION A · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N4028K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Maridon Joseph R, a co-owned, certificate issued September 8, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4028K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hiller UH-12E (serial 5069, cancelled January 18, 2018); North American NAVION A (serial NAV-4-1028, cancelled October 4, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 11, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4028K: Accident on July 5, 1983 at Brooten, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI83LA297Accident on July 5, 1983 at Brooten, MN: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 5069

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI83LA297 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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