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N5154U

Ballow Richard C KITFOX 1

Valid Alaska

N5154U is a Ballow Richard C KITFOX 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 6, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Ballow Richard C
Model
KITFOX 1
Serial number
21
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A676F9 (octal 51473371)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 17, 2021
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 6, 1991
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00804141

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Winnestaffer Brian E
Type
Individual
Address
10175 N Glenn Hwy
Palmer, AK 99645-8123

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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

—Cessna 206 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5154U, 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 Winnestaffer Brian E, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5154U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 206 (serial 2060154, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5154U: Accident on February 12, 1992 at Valdez, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ANC92LA036Accident on February 12, 1992 at Valdez, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Richard C. Ballow KITFOX 1 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE AIRPLANE'S BRAKES. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE ICY RUNWAY CONDITION AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE WITH THIS TYPE OF OPERATION.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA036 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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