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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Howes Fred M KITFOX SPEEDSTER
N580LD is a Howes Fred M KITFOX SPEEDSTER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lostine, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2026 and expires on November 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 3, 1998.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Howes Fred M
- Model
- KITFOX SPEEDSTER
- Serial number
- HBS043
- 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 · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A776E6 (octal 51673346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2026
- Expires
- November 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- November 4, 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 · October 3, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00185202
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Perry William J
- 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
- PO Box 108
Lostine, OR 97857-0108
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N580LD links to the rest of the register
- Howes Fred M 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Lostine, OR 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N580LD, 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 Perry William J, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2026, expires November 30, 2033. 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 HBS043 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N580LD 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]
1 NTSB record under N580LD: Accident on May 26, 2020 at Georgetown, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Denney KITFOX SPEEDSTER · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data