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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Pphu Ekolot KR-030 TOPAZ
N898DR is a Pphu Ekolot KR-030 TOPAZ, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Port Charlotte, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated August 15, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pphu Ekolot
- Model
- KR-030 TOPAZ · all KR-030 TOPAZs and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. This is how the Pphu Ekolot KR-030 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 30-05-10
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- AC6367 (octal 53061547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 15, 2015
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01174353
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pfanz Guy DBA
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 615 Riviera Ln NW
Port Charlotte, FL 33948-3735 - Co-owners
- Vecinos Coffee
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N898DR links to the rest of the register
- Pphu Ekolot KR-030 7 registered
- Pphu Ekolot 7 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912UL 134 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Port Charlotte, FL 71 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N898DR, 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 Pfanz Guy DBA, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated August 15, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-05-10 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N898DR 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 N898DR. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data