Kolb FIRESTAR II
N56920 is a Kolb FIRESTAR II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Summit, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 14, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Kolb
- Model
- FIRESTAR II · all FIRESTAR IIs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Kolb FIRESTAR II family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- F1247
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A74B10 (octal 51645420)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2011
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 14, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00425879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dooley James L
- 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
- 1033 C D Rayborn Rd
Summit, MS 39666-7944
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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 N56920 links to the rest of the register
- Kolb FIRESTAR II 8 registered
- Kolb 41 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Summit, MS 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Mississippi 2,604 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N56920, 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 Dooley James L, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 14, 2008, 4 years after the 2004 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 F1247 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56920 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 75-635, cancelled May 11, 2004). 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 N56920: Accident on July 24, 2001 at Anniston, AL: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Boeing Stearman PT-17 · operated under 091
The inadvertent activation of the flight control gust locks by the pilot rated passenger that resulted in the loss of control inflight. Contributing was the pilot in commands failure to follow the airplane's pre-flight inspection check list.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data