Sykes Daniel C KITFOX
N3DS is a Sykes Daniel C KITFOX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wiberg Chad D, a partnership in Shepherd, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 23, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sykes Daniel C
- Model
- KITFOX
- Serial number
- 56
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A31AFC (octal 50615374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 23, 1989
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00524381
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiberg Chad D
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 9315 Doyle Rd
Shepherd, MT 59079-3618 - Co-owners
- Luoma Leif R
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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 N3DS, 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 Wiberg Chad D, a partnership, certificate issued April 13, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 23, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 56 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3DS 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 N3DS: Accident on February 16, 1982 at Columbus, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 90 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA057 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