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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Airborne 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airborne
- Model
- 912 XT
- Serial number
- XT-15
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (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 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AC1DCD (octal 53016715)
Registration
- Status
- Registration expired, pending cancellationFAA registration status code 29 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2022
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2019
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 29, 2010
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00364939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leffelman Joseph L
- 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
- 428 N Beck Rd
Lindenhurst, IL 60046-7409
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.
Connections how N88ZT links to the rest of the register
- Airborne 58 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912UL series 402 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Lindenhurst, IL 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88ZT.json.
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data