Watson David E SKYBOLT
N88FX is a Watson David E SKYBOLT, 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 Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 24, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Watson David E
- Model
- SKYBOLT
- Serial number
- DEW3923883
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1A · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AC1C0F (octal 53016017)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2011
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 24, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00462702
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scronce Anthony W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2349 Watt St
Reno, NV 89509-4249
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N88FX, 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 Scronce Anthony W, an individual, certificate issued October 18, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 24, 2014, 28 years after the 1986 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 DEW3923883 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88FX according to the deregistered file. [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 N88FX: Accident on May 4, 2015 at Carson City, NV: 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: Watson David E SKYBOLT · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during takeoff, resulting in substantial damage to the airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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