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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Lasiter Charles E KITFOX
N3143E is a Lasiter Charles E KITFOX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tehachapi, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 9, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lasiter Charles E
- Model
- KITFOX
- Serial number
- 857
- 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 582 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A35873 (octal 50654163)
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 14, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 14, 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 · April 9, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00543672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gingras John T
- 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
- 22385 Courtlandt Ct
Tehachapi, CA 93561-7715
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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 2
Connections how N3143E links to the rest of the register
- Lasiter Charles E 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582 61 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Tehachapi, CA 164 aircraft registered in this town
- Mountain Valley Airport · L94
- Tehachapi Municipal · TSP
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N3143E, 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 Gingras John T, an individual, certificate issued June 14, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 9, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3143E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182R (serial 18268235, cancelled March 9, 1989); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6745, cancelled August 3, 1948). 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 N3143E: Accident on March 16, 1987 at Avenal, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182R · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data