Douglas D Ritter DESERT FOX 1
N10ZR is a Douglas D Ritter DESERT FOX 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 23, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Douglas D Ritter
- Model
- DESERT FOX 1
- Serial number
- 01
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A004AA (octal 50002252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 23, 2019
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01253316
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ritter Douglas D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2201 Constellation Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80906-1111
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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 N10ZR, 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 Ritter Douglas D, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 23, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N10ZR 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 N10ZR: Accident on June 27, 2024 at Ellicott, CO: minor 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: Desert Fox 1 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to takeoff with a quartering tailwind and high density altitude which resulted in a runway overrun. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the right main axle mount due to the poor weld.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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