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N4449

Henry Steven L KITFOX III

N4449 is a Henry Steven L KITFOX III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 24, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Henry Steven L
Model
KITFOX III
Serial number
81HBS048
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912 · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A55D0C (octal 51256414)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 18, 2008
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 24, 1993
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00464532

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cunningham Richard E
Type
Individual
Address
999 Victoria Ct
Lafayette, CA 94549-4622

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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

1949-08-30Monocoupe 90A · Valid registration
1929-03-08Waco 10 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4449, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cunningham Richard E, an individual, certificate issued December 18, 2008, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 81HBS048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4449 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Monocoupe 90A (serial A-814, cancelled August 30, 1949); Waco 10 (serial 1339, cancelled March 8, 1929). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4449. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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