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N52KF

Sc Aerostar Sa YAK-52W

Valid Colorado

N52KF is a Sc Aerostar Sa YAK-52W, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Air Care Systems INC, a corporation in Lamar, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 15, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Sc Aerostar Sa
Model
YAK-52W · all YAK-52Ws and related versions
Serial number
9111213
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6877C (octal 51503574)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 24, 2020
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · August 15, 2001
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00953974

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Care Systems INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 352
Lamar, CO 81052-0352

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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 · 3 clear

The public federal record on N52KF, 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 Air Care Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 24, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for exhibition; 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 9111213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N52KF 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 N52KF: Accident on September 23, 2017 at El Cajon, CA: 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

WPR17LA214Accident on September 23, 2017 at El Cajon, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sc Aerostar SA YAK 52W · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during taxi after a reduction in braking performance and steering capabilities due to his failure to reopen the air supply valve after the nonstandard engine start.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR17LA214 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