Progressive Aerodyne Inc SEAREY LSA
N428MB is a Progressive Aerodyne Inc SEAREY LSA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2022 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 17, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Progressive Aerodyne Inc
- Model
- SEAREY LSA · all SEAREY LSAs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1126
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A51A6C (octal 51215154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2022
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · December 17, 2021
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01353920
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bethune Kenneth
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 102 Clinton Ave W Ste 501
Huntsville, AL 35801-4943
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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
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The public federal record on N428MB, 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 Bethune Kenneth, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2022, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 17, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1126 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N428MB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mbb BK 117 A-3 (serial 7088, cancelled July 26, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N428MB: Accident on April 25, 2000 at St. Petersburg, FL: fatal, destroyed (3 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: Eurocopter BK117-A3 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance that resulted in the in-flight collision with a tower.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL00FA048 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
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