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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Robert Michael Kuklo BARRACUDA
N57GF is a Robert Michael Kuklo BARRACUDA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Livermore, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 2, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Robert Michael Kuklo
- Model
- BARRACUDA
- Serial number
- RK1-008
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-E4B5 · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A74CAC (octal 51646254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 29, 2026
- 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 2, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01090393
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kuklo Robert 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
- 4655 Gerrilyn Way Apt 150
Livermore, CA 94550-3480
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N57GF links to the rest of the register
- Robert Michael Kuklo 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-540-E4B5 21 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Livermore, CA 181 aircraft registered in this town
- Livermore Municipal · LVK
- California 28,134 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-E4B5 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-E4B5 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N57GF, 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 Kuklo Robert M, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 2, 2014, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RK1-008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N57GF according to the deregistered file. [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 N57GF. 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 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data