Bates Gerald M KR-2
N611GB is a Bates Gerald M KR-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Silverdale, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 26, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bates Gerald M
- Model
- KR-2
- Serial number
- 5119
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A7F30D (octal 51771415)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 26, 1987
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00722686
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gotschall John F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9980 Willamette Meridian Rd NW
Silverdale, WA 98383-7350
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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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N611GB, 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 Gotschall John F, an individual, certificate issued June 29, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. 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 5119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N611GB 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 N611GB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data