Kitfox II
N8610X is a Kitfox II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bakersville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kitfox
- Model
- II
- Serial number
- 004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABD4FC (octal 52752374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00338639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Webb Jame P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 870 Highway 261
Bakersville, NC 28705
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N8610X, 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 Webb Jame P, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2007, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8610X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180D (serial 18051010, cancelled September 26, 1961). 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 N8610X: Accident on October 17, 2025 at Spruce Pine, NC: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Kitfox II · operated under 091
On October 17, 2025, about 1154 eastern daylight time, a Kitfox II airplane, N8610X was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Witness 1 reported that the pilot completed one takeoff and landing on grass runway 17 at the Avery County Airport-Morrison. Later, two witnesses saw the airplane taxiing on the grass east of the asphalt runway near the windsock. Witness 1 reported that he briefly observed what appeared to be the accident …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26FA022 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