Atkin Wesley H KITFOX IV
N51234 is an Atkin Wesley H KITFOX IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Park, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Atkin Wesley H
- Model
- KITFOX IV
- Serial number
- 1884
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A66BBB (octal 51465673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 17, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00394362
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swarts Charles J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3006 White Post Rd
Cedar Park, TX 78613-5437
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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 2
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The public federal record on N51234, 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 Swarts Charles J, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 1996, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1884 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51234 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274285, cancelled March 21, 1989); Cessna 150J (serial 15069858, cancelled March 7, 1972). 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 N51234: Accident on June 30, 1988 at Descanso, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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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 172P · operated under 091
PILOT'S POOR JUDGMENT AND INTENTIONAL DECISION TO LOW FLY THE AIRCRAFT BELOW THE MINIMUM SAFE ALTITUDE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX88FA240 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data