North American T-28A
N699 is a North American T-28A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vortex Aviation LLC, an LLC in Biloxi, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 27, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-28A · all T-28As and related versions
- Serial number
- 51-3479A
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright C7BA SERIES · 800 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 208 mph
- Transponder code
- A94C24 (octal 52246044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 27, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00670497
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vortex Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2747 Pass Rd
Biloxi, MS 39531-2634
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N699, 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 Vortex Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 5, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. 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 51-3479A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N699 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waterman Aircraft Syndicate WATERMAN 4CLM (serial A-1524, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N699. 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 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