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N503XL

Duncan Jack KITFOX XL

Valid Kentucky

N503XL is a Duncan Jack KITFOX XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Markle Rick S, a partnership in Waddy, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 21, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Duncan Jack
Model
KITFOX XL
Serial number
ECX005
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A6472D (octal 51443455)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 18, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 21, 1996
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00405222

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Markle Rick S
Type
Partnership
Address
1553 Martin Nethery Rd
Waddy, KY 40076-6182
Co-owners
Riggs Aaron D

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N503XL, 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 Markle Rick S, a partnership, certificate issued July 18, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 21, 1996, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ECX005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N503XL according to the deregistered file. [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 N503XL. 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