Ultralight America/Case Rc SPITFIRE II
N55059 is an Ultralight America/Case Rc SPITFIRE II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cypress, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2007 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 11, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ultralight America/Case Rc
- Model
- SPITFIRE II
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A70294 (octal 51601224)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2007
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 11, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00407589
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Case Richard C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11318 Fawn Springs Ct
Cypress, TX 77433-2304
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N55059, 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 Case Richard C, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2007, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 11, 2009, 8 years after the 2001 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 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55059 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32-7300031, cancelled February 22, 2002). 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 N55059: Accident on March 12, 1998 at Mc Cordsville, IN: fatal, substantial damage (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-32-260 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed and control of the airplane. Factors were his self-induced pressure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA102 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