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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026David M Hughes KITFOX S7 SUPERSPORT
N53JG is a David M Hughes KITFOX S7 SUPERSPORT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- David M Hughes
- Model
- KITFOX S7 SUPERSPORT
- Serial number
- KA16028322
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-290 · 125 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Kit
- KITFOX AIRCRAFT LLC S7 SUPER SPORT
- Transponder code
- A6AEE3 (octal 51527343)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 11, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 2022
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01357695
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hughes David M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 743 Stearman St
Independence, OR 97351-9413
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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
Connections how N53JG links to the rest of the register
- David M Hughes 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-290 46 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- Independence, OR 215 aircraft registered in this town
- Independence State Airport · 7S5
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-290 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-290 20 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N53JG, 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 Hughes David M, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial KA16028322 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53JG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-1444, cancelled November 21, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N53JG. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data