Ostendorf Robert Lee KITFOX SERIES 5
N197BR is an Ostendorf Robert Lee KITFOX SERIES 5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Spokane, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 26, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ostendorf Robert Lee
- Model
- KITFOX SERIES 5
- Serial number
- S9602-0173
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A18255 (octal 50301125)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 26, 2011
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00896321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sledge David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7809 N Lapis Ln
Spokane, WA 99208-4980
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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 N197BR, 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 Sledge David M, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 26, 2011, 14 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S9602-0173 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197BR 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 N197BR: Accident on August 3, 2004 at Westfield, IN: 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: Skystar KITFOX · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed resulting in a stall.
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