Rhoades Larry W KITFOX IV
N90TY is a Rhoades Larry W KITFOX IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ferkin Air LLC, an LLC in Caldwell, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 28, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rhoades Larry W
- Model
- KITFOX IV
- Serial number
- 1800
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AC6E93 (octal 53067223)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 28, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00816611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ferkin Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 19335 Lower Pleasant Ridge Rd
Caldwell, ID 83607-9057
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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 N90TY, 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 Ferkin Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 5, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 28, 2023, 26 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 1800 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N90TY 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]
2 NTSB records under N90TY: Accident on January 4, 2011 at Homedale, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 16, 2004 at Sandpoint, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ferkin Kitfox IV · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the snow-covered terrain during the takeoff ground roll, which resulted in a nose-over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beyers Kitfox IV · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing roll. Contributing factors were the rough grass runway, and the trees on the left side of the runway.
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