Welch Jim KITFOX-V TAIL DRAGR
N717JW is a Welch Jim KITFOX-V TAIL DRAGR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lufkin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 26, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Welch Jim
- Model
- KITFOX-V TAIL DRAGR
- Serial number
- S96070187
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A996EB (octal 52313353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 26, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00816331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Welch Linda
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1209 Gary Rd
Lufkin, TX 75901-6434
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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 · 5 clear
The public federal record on N717JW, 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 Welch Linda, an individual, certificate issued August 1, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 26, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S96070187 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N717JW 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 N717JW. 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