Ralph Starr SUPER SPORT
N161RS is a Ralph Starr SUPER SPORT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ralph Starr
- Model
- SUPER SPORT
- Serial number
- KA10183170
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming YO-233 · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- KITFOX AIRCRAFT LLC KITFOX SUPER SPORT
- Transponder code
- A0F6ED (octal 50173355)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 13, 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 · September 8, 2016
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01169996
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilmington Trust CO Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 1100 N Market St
Wilmington, DE 19890-1100
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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
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The public federal record on N161RS, 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 Wilmington Trust CO Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued December 13, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial KA10183170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N161RS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226-T(B) (serial T341, cancelled February 18, 1997). 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]
2 NTSB records under N161RS: Accident on January 16, 1993 at John Day, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 20, 1990 at Coeur D'Alene, ID: fatal, minor damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA-226T(B) · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. FACTORS INCLUDE A SNOW COVERED RUNWAY.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA226-T(B) · operated under 091
INADEQUATE COORDINATION BETWEEN THE PILOT AND THE GROUND LINEMAN. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: IMPAIRMENT OF THE GROUND LINEMAN FROM CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL.
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