Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2008
N588TA is a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2008, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Braidwood, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated January 17, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna
- Model
- P2008 · all P2008s and related versions
- Serial number
- 088
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A7954A (octal 51712512)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · January 17, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01155037
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mack Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 375 S Francis St
Braidwood, IL 60408-2122
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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 N588TA, 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 Mack Thomas, an individual, certificate issued February 7, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 17, 2023, 9 years after the 2014 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 088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N588TA 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]
1 NTSB record under N588TA: Accident on April 16, 2016 at Burgaw, NC: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2008 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to activate the airplane’s alternator, which resulted in an eventual loss of electrical power to the engine’s fuel pumps, fuel starvation, and a total loss of engine power. Contributing was the pilot’s use of an incomplete checklist.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA16LA162 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