North American T-28B
N65491 is a North American T-28B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sterling, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 23, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28B · all T-28Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 138245
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming R-1820 SER · 1300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A89F43 (octal 52117503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 23, 1991
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00555211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tondi David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 47082 Southampton Ct
Sterling, VA 20165-7503
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N65491, 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 Tondi David M, an individual, certificate issued April 20, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 138245 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65491 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 9300, cancelled February 17, 1956); Cessna 172P (serial 17275764, cancelled date not given). 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 N65491: Accident on June 6, 1984 at Haverhill, MA: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84FA201 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