Howes 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 FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 3, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Howes Fred M
- Model
- KITFOX SPEEDSTER
- Serial number
- HBS043
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A776E6 (octal 51673346)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 3, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00185202
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- 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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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]
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: Denney KITFOX SPEEDSTER · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA196 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data