Roberts Alan W KITFOX II
N598AL is a Roberts Alan W KITFOX II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Roberts Alan W
- Model
- KITFOX II
- Serial number
- 598
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A7BB2A (octal 51735452)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 24, 1990
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00535101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whitmer Lyle E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 318 Dunbar Ave
Fairbanks, AK 99701-3663
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N598AL, 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 Whitmer Lyle E, an individual, certificate issued December 22, 2009, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 24, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 598 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N598AL 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 N598AL: Accident on September 11, 2010 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Roberts Alan W KITFOX II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain proper aircraft control during landing and the subsequent go-around, resulting in a hard landing, and a collision with a signpost.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC10CA086 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