Capps Edward Franklin KITFOX 7
N4439J is a Capps Edward Franklin KITFOX 7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chaparral, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Capps Edward Franklin
- Model
- KITFOX 7
- Serial number
- S 70 40 20 49
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A5595E (octal 51254536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 12, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00448209
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Capps Edward F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 637 Sagewood Dr
Chaparral, NM 88081-7418
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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 N4439J, 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 Capps Edward F, an individual, certificate issued May 16, 2008, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S 70 40 20 49 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4439J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T188C (serial T18803737T, cancelled January 28, 1994); Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-22844, cancelled June 5, 1968). 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 N4439J: Accident on May 20, 1982 at Knobel, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna T188C · operated under 137
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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