Mark Krotky CH701
N515MK is a Mark Krotky CH701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mark Krotky
- Model
- CH701
- Serial number
- 1213
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A6751F (octal 51472437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 12, 2025
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01486484
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vaughan Thomas
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10907 Snowcreek Falls Ave
Bakersfield, CA 93312-6682
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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
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The public federal record on N515MK, 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 Vaughan Thomas, an individual, certificate issued September 21, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N515MK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 222U (serial 47515, cancelled February 18, 2011). 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 N515MK: Accident on June 2, 2010 at Midlothian, TX: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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: Bell 222 · operated under 091
The fracture of a swashplate drive pin as a result of hydrogen embrittlement due to an unknown source, which resulted in an in-flight breakup of the main rotor system during cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10FA291 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