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N459F

John R Fitt KOLB FIRESTAR

N459F is a John R Fitt KOLB FIRESTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sebastopol, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
John R Fitt
Model
KOLB FIRESTAR
Serial number
FS II-459
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2019
Kit
KOLB AIRCRAFT CO LLC FIRE STAR II
Transponder code
A59408 (octal 51312010)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 5, 2019
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 12, 2019
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01294524

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fitt John R
Type
Individual
Address
8389 Germone Rd
Sebastopol, CA 95472-4007

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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

1983-08-09Dassault-Breguet FALCON 20 · Administratively canceled

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N459F, 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 Fitt John R, an individual, certificate issued April 5, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FS II-459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N459F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dassault-Breguet FALCON 20 (serial 452, cancelled August 9, 1983). 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 N459F. 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