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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Knapp Frank E CUB-X
N85CX is a Knapp Frank E CUB-X, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Knapp Frank E
- Model
- CUB-X
- Serial number
- 001
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12F · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- ABA547 (octal 52722507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 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 · May 6, 2012
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01092172
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knapp Frank e
- 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
- PO Box 78
Palmer, AK 99645-0078
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N85CX links to the rest of the register
- Knapp Frank E 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental C85-12F 90 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Palmer, AK 546 aircraft registered in this town
- Butte Municipal · AK1
- Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal · PAQ
- Finger Lake Seaplane Base · 99Z
- Gooding Lake Seaplane Base · 2D3
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85-12F 7 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N85CX.json.
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The public federal record on N85CX, 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 Knapp Frank e, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85CX 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 N85CX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- 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
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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data