Mcmeekin Thomas William KITFOX III
N5290T is a Mcmeekin Thomas William KITFOX III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ultra Flight LLC, an LLC in Le Mars, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 18, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcmeekin Thomas William
- Model
- KITFOX III
- Serial number
- 949
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6ACC7 (octal 51526307)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 18, 1997
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00094702
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ultra Flight LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1621 Airport Dr
Le Mars, IA 51031-1852
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5290T, 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 Ultra Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 23, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 949 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5290T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R7235217, cancelled June 17, 1991). 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 N5290T: Accident on March 3, 1991 at Monterey Park, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Piper PA-28R-200 · operated under 091
SUICIDE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91FA116 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