Smith Bobby KR-2S
N808BS is a Smith Bobby KR-2S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jacksonville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 15, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Bobby
- Model
- KR-2S
- Serial number
- 808
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AAFFBF (octal 52577677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00347261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patterson John E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9 Nob Hill Dr
Jacksonville, IL 62650-2662
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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 N808BS, 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 Patterson John E, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 15, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 808 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N808BS 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 N808BS. 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