Bach Joseph E KITFOX IV
N161JB is a Bach Joseph E KITFOX IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Duncan, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bach Joseph E
- Model
- KITFOX IV
- Serial number
- 1902
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A0F62F (octal 50173057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 8, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00954282
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bivens Jason D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2315 Cherrybrook St
Duncan, OK 73533-8817
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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 N161JB, 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 Bivens Jason D, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1902 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161JB 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 N161JB: Accident on September 24, 2021 at Ozark, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kitfox IV · operated under 091
The pilot’s inability to maintain altitude after the airplane encountered a downdraft while he intentionally flew at a low-altitude during a practice for a short-takeoff-and-landing flight competition.
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