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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Richard P Piepgras KITFOX MODEL IV
N4742D is a Richard P Piepgras KITFOX MODEL IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nevada, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Richard P Piepgras
- Model
- KITFOX MODEL IV
- Serial number
- ADS 159
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- SKYSTAR ACFT CO KITFOX IV
- Transponder code
- A5D298 (octal 51351230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 9, 2024
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01330611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melech John D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18522 S 2200 Rd
Nevada, MO 64772-7978
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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
Connections how N4742D links to the rest of the register
- Richard P Piepgras 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912UL 134 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Nevada, MO 17 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada Municipal · NVD
- Missouri 5,817 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4742D.json.
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The public federal record on N4742D, 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 Melech John D, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 9, 2024, 4 years after the 2020 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 ADS 159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4742D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182A (serial 34842, cancelled April 24, 2001). 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 N4742D: Accident on July 28, 2000 at Sauk City, WI: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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: Cessna 182A · operated under 091
VFR flight into IMC encountered by the pilot and exceeding the design limits of the aircraf. A factor was flight to a destination alternate not performed by the pilot.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data