Hipps J-3 KITTEN
N7052A is a Hipps J-3 KITTEN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hipps J-3
- Model
- KITTEN
- Serial number
- 01034
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A969C0 (octal 52264700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00362969
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Connell Mark S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3748 Turtle Mound Rd
Melbourne, FL 32934-8448
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7052A, 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 Connell Mark S, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7052A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes 269A (serial 880956, cancelled November 7, 1998); Cessna 172 (serial 29152, cancelled January 17, 1957). 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 N7052A: Accident on August 19, 1996 at Cedar Rapids, IA: minor 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: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
partial blocking of the fuel injection control, and a fracture of the induction air ducting for reasons undetermined. A factor was trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96TA306 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
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