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N87DW

Winterton Dean A KITFOX

Valid Illinois

N87DW is a Winterton Dean A KITFOX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Paw Paw, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 1987 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations; amateur built, dated June 26, 1987.

Aircraft

Maker
Winterton Dean A
Model
KITFOX
Serial number
57
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
1986
Transponder code
ABF45D (octal 52772135)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 15, 1987
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · To show compliance with regulations; Amateur built · June 26, 1987
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00970837

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Winterton Dean A
Type
Individual
Address
1173 County Line Rd
Paw Paw, IL 61353-9713

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N87DW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Winterton Dean A, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 1987, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations; amateur built, dated June 26, 1987, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 57 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N87DW according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N87DW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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