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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Croft Robert C KITFOX 2
N81589 is a Croft Robert C KITFOX 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yacolt, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Croft Robert C
- Model
- KITFOX 2
- Serial number
- 307
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- AB1F81 (octal 52617601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 21, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00554531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rotschy Grayson B
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 31219 NE Kelly Rd
Yacolt, WA 98675-3023
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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 2
Connections how N81589 links to the rest of the register
- Croft Robert C 2 aircraft on the register
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Yacolt, WA 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Washington 10,644 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N81589.json.
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The public federal record on N81589, 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 Rotschy Grayson B, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 21, 2026, 37 years after the 1989 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 307 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81589 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-208, cancelled March 23, 1954); Rockwell International 500-S (serial 3297, cancelled date not given). 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 N81589: Accident on November 25, 1985 at Des Moines, IA: fatal, destroyed (7 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: Rockwell 500-S · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data