W Kirk Ellis ALASKAN 4X4
N896AK is a W Kirk Ellis ALASKAN 4X4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Quadcub Utah LLC, an LLC in Salt Lake City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 16, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- W Kirk Ellis
- Model
- ALASKAN 4X4
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC5BA8 (octal 53055650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 16, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01310499
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quadcub Utah LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 461 E 200 S Ste 102
Salt Lake City, UT 84111-2138
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N896AK, 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 Quadcub Utah LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 12, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N896AK 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N896AK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 September 30, 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