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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Roger Thorstad/Brad Thorstad KOLB TWINSTAR MARK 3
N1025T is a Roger Thorstad/Brad Thorstad KOLB TWINSTAR MARK 3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Richmond, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 7, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Roger Thorstad/Brad Thorstad
- Model
- KOLB TWINSTAR MARK 3
- Serial number
- M3X20-4-00116
- 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 912UL · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- KOLB COMPANY INC KOLB TWINSTAR MK III
- Transponder code
- A00F3B (octal 50007473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2025
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 7, 2022
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01346965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- May Charles
- 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
- 1250 Mule Shed Ln
Richmond, KY 40475-9772
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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 N1025T links to the rest of the register
- Roger Thorstad/Brad Thorstad 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912UL 134 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Richmond, KY 61 aircraft registered in this town
- Central Kentucky Regional · RGA
- Kentucky 2,980 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Attach Fitting, cracked · 2000-12-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Attach Fitting, cracked · 2000-12-01
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The public federal record on N1025T, 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 May Charles, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 7, 2022, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M3X20-4-00116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1025T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E-55 (serial TE-950, cancelled September 27, 2013). 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 N1025T: Accident on June 2, 2023 at Starbuck, MN: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kolb TWINSTAR · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare and hard landing, which resulted in the left axle fracturing from bending overstress.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data