Tipton Kitfox KITFOX IV
N4287Y is a Tipton Kitfox KITFOX IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Giraltar, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 6, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tipton Kitfox
- Model
- KITFOX IV
- Serial number
- 1661T1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A51CBB (octal 51216273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 6, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00451659
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cernik Tyler
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 30565 Young Dr
Giraltar, MI 48173-9529
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4287Y, 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 Cernik Tyler, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1661T1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4287Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ledoux Robert E HAB-2 (serial 002, cancelled February 18, 2003). 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 N4287Y: Accident on June 17, 2023 at Odessa, MO: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Tipton Kitfox Kitfox IV · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to attain the proper touchdown speed, which resulted in a runway excursion and subsequent nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA242 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