Bradford Kyle R PIETENPOL SKY SCOUT
N4301D is a Bradford Kyle R PIETENPOL SKY SCOUT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Eaton Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 1992 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bradford Kyle R
- Model
- PIETENPOL SKY SCOUT
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A5259D (octal 51222635)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 25, 1992
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00655351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bradford Kyle R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2565 Gale Rd
Eaton Rapids, MI 48827-9664
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4301D, 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 Bradford Kyle R, an individual, certificate issued March 25, 1992, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 25, 1996, 4 years after the 1992 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4301D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D-50 (serial DH-52, cancelled March 29, 1971). 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 N4301D: Accident on August 21, 1993 at Eaton Rapids, MI: 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: Bradford Pietenpol SKYSCOUT · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertant stall. Factors related to the accident were the low altitude and the restricted movement of the carburetor needle.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93DEC01 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data