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North American T-28A
N5251V is a North American T-28A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Powered By Stinky LLC, an LLC in York, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 21, 1982.
Where is it now Last seen November 4 at 2:56 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28A · all T-28As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the North American T-28 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 49-1654
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wright C7BA SERIES · 800 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A69E10 (octal 51517020)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 21, 1982
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00522475
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Powered By Stinky LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4 Weil Ln
York, ME 03909-5416
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.
Connections how N5251V links to the rest of the register
- North American T-28 206 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright C7BA series 25 aircraft with this engine series · 800 hp
- Type certificate 1A18 · held by The Boeing Company
- Powered By Stinky LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- York, ME 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Maine 1,425 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the North American T-28 6 supplemental type certificates
- Where N5251V is now · Last seen November 4 at 2:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N5251V, 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 Powered By Stinky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 21, 1982, 33 years after the 1949 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 49-1654 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5251V 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 N5251V. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data