Knight Gary L AA NIEUPORT 28
N6170 is a Knight Gary L AA NIEUPORT 28, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lansing, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 22, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Knight Gary L
- Model
- AA NIEUPORT 28
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- AIRDROME AEROPLANES NIEUPORT 28
- Transponder code
- A80B17 (octal 52005427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 22, 2016
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01204610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knight Gary L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 600 Bittersweet Rd
Lansing, KS 66043-6244
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6170, 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 Knight Gary L, an individual, certificate issued January 19, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 22, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6170 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylor / Treffinger / Maloney MINI-HAWK 1 (serial MH-01, cancelled June 25, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6170: Accident on July 18, 2022 at Basehor, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Knight AA Nieuport 28 · operated under 091
The pilot’s incorrect installation of the left-wing strut, which resulted in a loss of airplane control during takeoff and a subsequent aerodynamic stall and spin from which the pilot could not recover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22FA320 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