Smith Albert F KITFOX V
N85AS is a Smith Albert F KITFOX V, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crestview, Florida. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Albert F
- Model
- KITFOX V
- Serial number
- A9504-0116
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- ABA510 (octal 52722420)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 18, 2000
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00685542
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- C/O Welton Law Firm Pllc
1020 S Ferdon Blvd
Crestview, FL 32536-4510
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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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N85AS, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 18, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A9504-0116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85AS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Strojnik Alex S-4 (serial 001, cancelled December 29, 1992). 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 N85AS: Incident on March 27, 1985 at Reno, NV: no injuries. 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: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-14 · operated under 121
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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