Bachem Fritz M AVID MARK IV
N77FB is a Bachem Fritz M AVID MARK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Henderson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 7, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bachem Fritz M
- Model
- AVID MARK IV
- Serial number
- 989
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 2200 · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AA672D (octal 52463455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 7, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00726001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kramer Kaleb R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13006 Cr 4187
Henderson, TX 75654
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N77FB, 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 Kramer Kaleb R, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 7, 2015, 19 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 989 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N77FB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna P210N (serial P21000310, cancelled October 21, 1983). 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 N77FB: Accident on August 9, 2026 at Arp, TX: fatal, substantial damage (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: Bachem Fritz M AVID MARK IV · operated under 091
On August 9, 2026, at about 1655 central daylight time, an experimental amateur-built Avid Mark IV, N77FB, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Arp, Texas. The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to witnesses, the accident airplane and a second airplane had landed in a grass field earlier in the afternoon. The accident airplane subsequently departed the field first and remained in the vicinity while the second airplane departed. Witnesses reported that after takeo…
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- 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