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N515JK

Kohles Jerry D KITFOX III

Valid Nebraska

N515JK is a Kohles Jerry D KITFOX III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Norfolk, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 30, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Kohles Jerry D
Model
KITFOX III
Serial number
1082
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A674D4 (octal 51472324)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 25, 1996
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 30, 1996
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00235981

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kohles Jerry D
Type
Individual
Address
56052 845Th Rd
Norfolk, NE 68701-1055

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N515JK, 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 Kohles Jerry D, an individual, certificate issued July 25, 1996, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 30, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1082 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N515JK 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N515JK: Accident on June 4, 1997 at Meadow Grove, NE: 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

CHI97LA158Accident on June 4, 1997 at Meadow Grove, NE: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kohles KITFOX III · operated under 091

failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during an aborted takeoff. A factor was the pilot's lack of recent experience in the make and model of airplane.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA158 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