Calkins Gene M KITFOX SERIES 5
N394GL is a Calkins Gene M 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 New Boston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 23, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Calkins Gene M
- Model
- KITFOX SERIES 5
- Serial number
- S9404-0021
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A49246 (octal 51111106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 23, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00375462
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yates Kenneth B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2240 County Road 4003
New Boston, TX 75570-5562
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N394GL, 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 Yates Kenneth B, an individual, certificate issued January 3, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 23, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S9404-0021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N394GL 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 N394GL: Accident on March 1, 1999 at Waunakee, WI: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Calkins KITFOX 5 · operated under 091
the fracture of the trim actuator.
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- 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