Anderson Timothy C KITFOX IV-1200
N85TA is an Anderson Timothy C KITFOX IV-1200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Walla Walla, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 1995 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 19, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Anderson Timothy C
- Model
- KITFOX IV-1200
- Serial number
- HCU085
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- ABA6A9 (octal 52723251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 1995
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 19, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00705302
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anderson Timothy C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 609 S Division St
Walla Walla, WA 99362-3352
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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 N85TA, 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 Anderson Timothy C, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 1995, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 19, 1999, 4 years after the 1995 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 HCU085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 1606, cancelled May 26, 1976). 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 N85TA: Accident on June 5, 1997 at Fairbanks, AK: 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: Anderson Aircraft Corp. KITFOX IV-1200 · operated under 091
a seized crankshaft connecting rod bearing. A factor relating to the acciden was: the lack of suitable terrain for an emergency landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC97LA084 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
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