Costruzioni 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna
- Model
- P-MENTOR · all P-MENTORs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1144/US
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ISC · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A9C178 (octal 52340570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 21, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01487495
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shimomura Masaki
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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]
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: 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17LA168 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