Brown Donald R KITFOX SERIES 5
N87WW is a Brown Donald R KITFOX SERIES 5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Surprise, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 7, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brown Donald R
- Model
- KITFOX SERIES 5
- Serial number
- 59511-0160
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ABF606 (octal 52773006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 7, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00305691
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reichart John J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15775 W Morning Vista Ln
Surprise, AZ 85387-6029
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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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N87WW, 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 Reichart John J, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 2026, 29 years after the 1997 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 59511-0160 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87WW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Skyraider Llc MODEL 1 (serial 056, cancelled November 15, 2011). 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 N87WW: Accident on January 10, 2002 at Albuquerque, NM: 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: Piper PA-46T · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to obtain/maintain proper runway alignment. Contributing factors were the pilot's inadvertant flight into adverse weather conditions, the pilot not performing a missed approach, and the low ceiling and snow weather conditions .
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW02LA066 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