Murphy Robert S KITFOX 5 TAILDRAGGER
N121BM is a Murphy Robert S KITFOX 5 TAILDRAGGER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Murphy Robert S
- Model
- KITFOX 5 TAILDRAGGER
- Serial number
- S9701-0204
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-240 SER · 128 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A0578E (octal 50053616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 22, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00907141
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Murphy Jackson R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 306 S Pickens St
Columbia, SC 29205-3245
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N121BM, 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 Murphy Jackson R, an individual, certificate issued December 1, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 22, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S9701-0204 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N121BM 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N121BM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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