Lester Robert E KR-2
N1701L is a Lester Robert E KR-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mc Alpin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2001 and expires on June 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lester Robert E
- Model
- KR-2
- Serial number
- 4176
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A11BB3 (octal 50215663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2001
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00123837
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lester Robert E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18055 77Th Pl
Mc Alpin, FL 32062
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1701L, 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 Lester Robert E, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 2001, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4176 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1701L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Macchi LASA 60 (serial 6149, cancelled May 18, 1965); Grumman G-159 (serial 148, cancelled date not given). 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 N1701L: Accident on March 1, 2012 at Boca Raton, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 17, 2005 at Vienna, GA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lester Robert E KR-2 · operated under 091
The failure of the airplane’s engine air inlet system resulting in a total loss of engine power.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rand Robinson Engineering KR-2 · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to the owner/pilot mechanic's improper balancing of the modification to engine crankshaft which resulted in an overload failure.
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
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