No free picture of N198PR or its model is known to the site yet; spotters' pictures may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Waltermire Jeffrey D FIRESTAR II
N198PR is a Waltermire Jeffrey D FIRESTAR II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 15, 2023.
Where is it now checking the live feed…
Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…
Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.
Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waltermire Jeffrey D
- Model
- FIRESTAR II
- Serial number
- FS-14-4-00096
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 447 · 40 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- KOLB AIRCRAFT CO LLC FIRE STAR II
- Transponder code
- A18738 (octal 50303470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 4, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 15, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01419780
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thornton Shawn W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1818 Evans Ave Apt 208
Cheyenne, WY 82001-4665
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 1
Connections how N198PR links to the rest of the register
- Waltermire Jeffrey D 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 447 135 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Cheyenne, WY 328 aircraft registered in this town
- Cheyenne Rgnl/Jerry Olson Field · CYS
- Wyoming 3,236 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N198PR.json.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N198PR, 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 Thornton Shawn W, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 15, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FS-14-4-00096 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N198PR was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lefever Paul M RV12 (serial 120048, cancelled March 21, 2018). 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 N198PR: Accident on May 23, 2015 at Caledonia, MO: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lefever Paul M RV12 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for a precautionary landing, which resulted in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data