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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Burtch Russell Karl BURTCH-FIKE
N287RB is a Burtch Russell Karl BURTCH-FIKE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Red Creek, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 1987 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Burtch Russell Karl
- Model
- BURTCH-FIKE
- Serial number
- 01
- 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 · Franklin 4AC199D&E SER · 90 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A2E975 (octal 50564565)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 1987
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- 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 · June 28, 1991
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00303851
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burtch Russell K
- 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
- 713 Bell Rd
Red Creek, NY 13143-9465
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N287RB links to the rest of the register
- Burtch Russell Karl 1 aircraft on the register
- Franklin 4AC199D&E series 89 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Red Creek, NY 10 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N287RB, 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 Burtch Russell K, an individual, certificate issued August 5, 1987, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 28, 1991, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N287RB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N287RB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data