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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR
N728CB is a Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2024. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Torrance, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 9:58 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna
- Model
- P-MENTOR · all P-MENTORs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. A carbon-fibre fuselage with aluminium wings. This is how the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 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
- 1144/US
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ISC · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A9C178 (octal 52340570)
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 18, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 21, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01487495
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shimomura Masaki
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 22483 Kent Ave
Torrance, CA 90505-2314
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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
Connections how N728CB links to the rest of the register
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 73 registered
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna 627 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912ISC 66 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Type certificate A000671B · held by Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna S P A
- Torrance, CA 295 aircraft registered in this town
- Zamperini Field · TOA
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P-MENTOR 2 reports since 1995
- Where N728CB is now · Last seen October 16 at 9:58 am.
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The public federal record on N728CB, 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 Shimomura Masaki, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 21, 2025, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1144/US for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N728CB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 12899, cancelled February 4, 2019). 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 N728CB: Accident on April 27, 2017 at Newton, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R44 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate airspeed during out-of-ground-effect maneuvering at a low airspeed with a tailwind, which resulted in a loss of helicopter control due to a loss of tail rotor effectiveness.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data