Bruce A Fritz XENOS
N255BF is a Bruce A Fritz XENOS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arvada, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bruce A Fritz
- Model
- XENOS
- Serial number
- X0046
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC XENOS
- Transponder code
- A26A30 (octal 50465060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01227175
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Butler Henry A JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9163 W 75Th Cir
Arvada, CO 80005-4140
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.
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The public federal record on N255BF, 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 Butler Henry A JR, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2022, expires February 28, 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 X0046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N255BF 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 N255BF: Accident on September 17, 2022 at Longmont, CO: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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: Sonex Aircraft XENOS · operated under 091
The pilots’ inability to see and avoid each other, resulting in a midair collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22FA424 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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