Rardin William I KITFOX III
N876KF is a Rardin William I KITFOX III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mountain Home, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 1992. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rardin William I
- Model
- KITFOX III
- Serial number
- 876
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- AC0D87 (octal 53006607)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 7, 1992
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00613712
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kelly Rowdy
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1100 County Road 643
Mountain Home, AR 72653-7555
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N876KF, 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 Kelly Rowdy, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 876 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N876KF according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 10, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N876KF: Accident on January 2, 2011 at Carlisle, AR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rardin William I KITFOX III · operated under 091
Failure of the left main landing gear strut due to a pre-existing crack in the weld joint.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA143 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
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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