John M Truitt KOLB MRK III CLASSIC
N8045B is a John M Truitt KOLB MRK III CLASSIC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fishers, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 30, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John M Truitt
- Model
- KOLB MRK III CLASSIC
- Serial number
- M3-227
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 2200A · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- KOLB COMPANY INC KOLB TWINSTAR MK III
- Transponder code
- AAF3C2 (octal 52571702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 30, 2020
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00111149
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Truitt John M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 204 Valley Farm Ct
Fishers, IN 46037-9624
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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
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The public federal record on N8045B, 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 Truitt John M, an individual, certificate issued October 10, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 30, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M3-227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8045B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 29845, cancelled February 14, 1994). 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 N8045B: Accident on November 13, 1988 at Riverton, WY: no 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: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN89LA030 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