Kolb FIRESTAR II
N4878P is a Kolb FIRESTAR II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Middletown, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 7, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kolb
- Model
- FIRESTAR II · all FIRESTAR IIs and related versions
- Serial number
- F1067
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A60618 (octal 51403030)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 7, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00396289
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lawson Ted A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7910 Elk Creek Rd
Middletown, OH 45042-9317
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4878P, 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 Lawson Ted A, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 7, 2007, 10 years after the 1997 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 F1067 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4878P was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15284837, cancelled July 6, 1994); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-458, cancelled June 30, 1970). 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 N4878P: Accident on October 16, 2022 at West Alexandria, OH: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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: Kolb FIRESTAR II · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control after takeoff, resulting in an aerodynamic stall and collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA026 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
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