Kipp Lyman KOLB TWINSTAR M3X
N1978V is a Kipp Lyman KOLB TWINSTAR M3X, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Naples, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kipp Lyman
- Model
- KOLB TWINSTAR M3X
- Serial number
- M3X-04-3-00062
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- KOLB AIRCRAFT CO LLC TWINSTAR M3X
- Transponder code
- A185B0 (octal 50302660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01126726
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kipp Lyman E K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 650 Banyan Cir
Naples, FL 34102-5114
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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 N1978V, 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 Kipp Lyman E K, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. 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 M3X-04-3-00062 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1978V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 14189, cancelled September 5, 2008). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1978V: Accident on January 13, 1991 at So. Sioux City, NE: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091
DIRECTIONAL CONTROL NOT MAINTAINED BY THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE A SNOW COVERED RUNWAY AND A LACK OF RECENT EXPERIENCE.
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