Goodnight Frank S FIRESTAR
N55161 is a Goodnight Frank S FIRESTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Norfolk, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 8, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Goodnight Frank S
- Model
- FIRESTAR
- Serial number
- F.S. 07-2-00083
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- NEW KOLB AIRCRAFT CO FIRESTAR KXP
- Transponder code
- A70666 (octal 51603146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 8, 2008
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00408539
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kuether Daniel D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 601 W Omaha Ave
Norfolk, NE 68701-5818
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N55161, 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 Kuether Daniel D, an individual, certificate issued September 26, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. 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 F.S. 07-2-00083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55161 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17275124, cancelled July 6, 2005); Convair BT-13 (serial 2409, cancelled May 21, 1965). 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]
2 NTSB records under N55161: Accident on July 20, 2025 at Meadow Grove, NE: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on November 12, 1996 at Waukegan, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Kolb FIRESTAR · operated under 091
On July 19, 2025, about 2050 central daylight time, a Kolb Firestar airplane, N55161, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Meadow Grove, Nebraska. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A family member reported that the pilot departed his private airstrip about 1610. Local authorities were notified of the accident about 2050 when a property owner noticed the airplane in his soybean field. There were no witnesses, and the exact time of the accident is unknown. The accident site was located…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25FA261 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
the pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing. A factor was the pilot's misjudging the flare.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA026 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