Airborne 912 XT
N88ZT is an Airborne 912 XT, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lindenhurst, Illinois. The FAA lists the registration as "registration expired, pending cancellation" (certificate issued July 15, 2019). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 29, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airborne
- Model
- 912 XT
- Serial number
- XT-15
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AC1DCD (octal 53016715)
Registration
- Status
- Registration expired, pending cancellation
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2022
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2019
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 29, 2010
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00364939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leffelman Joseph L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 428 N Beck Rd
Lindenhurst, IL 60046-7409
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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 N88ZT, 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.
Registration status is "Registration expired, pending cancellation". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 29, 2010, 7 years after the 2003 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 XT-15 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88ZT 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 N88ZT: Accident on June 7, 2020 at Bristol, WI: 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: Airborne XT912 · operated under 091
The pilot's incorrect flight control input during the landing flare, which resulted in an impact with the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA217 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data