Simonds Ronald L KITFOX CLASSIC IV
N53RJ is a Simonds Ronald L KITFOX CLASSIC IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Downs, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2016 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 24, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Simonds Ronald L
- Model
- KITFOX CLASSIC IV
- Serial number
- C97110212
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Kit
- SKYSTAR ACFT CO KITFOX IV
- Transponder code
- A6AF94 (octal 51527624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2016
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 24, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00815832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- O'Neall Donald L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 25391 E 1000 North Rd
Downs, IL 61736-9663
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N53RJ, 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 O'Neall Donald L, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2016, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 2000, 3 years after the 1997 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C97110212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53RJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sampson BABY GREAT LAKES (serial 100B, cancelled May 7, 1984). 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 N53RJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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