Usu Research Foundation USU WRIGHT FLYER M C
N4028T is an Usu Research Foundation USU WRIGHT FLYER M C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Thunderbird Chapter 189 Air Force Association, a corporation in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 28, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Usu Research Foundation
- Model
- USU WRIGHT FLYER M C
- Serial number
- USURF1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A4B791 (octal 51133621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · March 28, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00018189
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thunderbird Chapter 189 Air Force Association
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 9749
Las Vegas, NV 89191-0749
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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 N4028T, 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 Thunderbird Chapter 189 Air Force Association, a corporation, certificate issued August 30, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated March 28, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial USURF1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4028T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hiller UH-12E (serial 5097, cancelled June 10, 1999). 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]
2 NTSB records under N4028T: Accident on June 2, 1998 at Delaplaine, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 28, 1989 at Hudsonville, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
The failure of maintenance personnel to comply with and airworthiness directive, which resulted in failure of the planetary gear due to lack of lubrication. A contributing factors was the lack of suitable terrain for the pilot to execute a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA253 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
THE FATIGUE FAILURE OF ONE OF THE TENSION-TORSION PINS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89DEM09 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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