Peterson Bill KOLB FIRESTAR
N503BP is a Peterson Bill KOLB FIRESTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 15, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Peterson Bill
- Model
- KOLB FIRESTAR
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A6453C (octal 51442474)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 15, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00372469
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Roger Travis
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 17330 Aquamarine Dr
Reno, NV 89508-5845
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N503BP, 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 Jones Roger Travis, an individual, certificate issued August 29, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 15, 2008, 3 years after the 2005 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 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N503BP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Poage William Tipton TWINSTAR MK II (serial TS223, cancelled January 28, 1993). 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 N503BP: Accident on June 30, 1991 at Staples, MN: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 Company TWINSTAR MK II · operated under 091
THE DISCONNECTED ELEVATOR TRIM CABLE. RELATED FACTORS ARE THE INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE/INSTALLATION, AND THE PILOT'S INABILITY TO MAINTAIN AIRCRAFT CONTROL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91DER10 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