Stits Playboy SA3A
N8KK is a Stits Playboy SA3A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 1973 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stits Playboy
- Model
- SA3A · all SA3As and related versions
- Serial number
- 3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AADE16 (octal 52557026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 1973
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00460782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eaa Aviation Foundation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N8KK, 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 Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 1973, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8KK 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 N8KK. 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 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