Johnson C H JOHNSON KITFOX 1-A
N44289 is a Johnson C H JOHNSON KITFOX 1-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Johnson C H
- Model
- JOHNSON KITFOX 1-A
- Serial number
- J-98-01
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Hirth F30 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5559D (octal 51252635)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 18, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00337211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benjamin David
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 632 N 2Nd St Ste 300
Philadelphia, PA 19123-3033
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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
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The public federal record on N44289, 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 Benjamin David, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial J-98-01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N44289 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287425400, cancelled January 30, 1992); Taylorcraft BC12-D1 (serial 10089, cancelled February 29, 1956). 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 N44289: Accident on August 7, 1991 at Wawayanda, NY: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
THE PILOT STARTED A SPIN MANEUVER AT TOO LOW AN ALTITUDE TO ALLOW RECOVERY. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS SCATTERED CLOUDS AT 2500 FEEL MSL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC91FA205 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