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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Powell Sherman Blakstone Iii KITFOX IV
N582KF is a Powell Sherman Blakstone Iii KITFOX IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Coupland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2001 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 6, 1992.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Powell Sherman Blakstone Iii
- Model
- KITFOX IV
- Serial number
- 1455
- 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
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A77E3D (octal 51677075)
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 6, 2001
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 6, 1992
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00323972
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clayton Steve
- 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 247
Coupland, TX 78615-0247
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N582KF links to the rest of the register
- Powell Sherman Blakstone Iii 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Coupland, TX 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N582KF.json.
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The public federal record on N582KF, 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 Clayton Steve, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2001, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 6, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1455 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N582KF 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 N582KF: Accident on June 21, 1997 at Concord, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sherman Powell KITFOX IV · operated under 091
Failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain directional control and his poor preflight planning preparation for allowing the pilot rated passenger to manipulate the throttle control. Contributing to the accident was the pilots total lack of experience in make and model.
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