James David Ledford KITFOX 5
N912L is a James David Ledford KITFOX 5, 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 Haines City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- James David Ledford
- Model
- KITFOX 5
- Serial number
- S97100127
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- SKYSTAR ACFT CO KITFOX SERIES 5
- Transponder code
- AC9F13 (octal 53117423)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 2015
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01174821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beatty Terry J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 286 Paradise Island Dr
Haines City, FL 33844-9308
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N912L, 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 Beatty Terry J, an individual, certificate issued March 6, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial S97100127 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N912L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH222, cancelled February 24, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N912L: Accident on February 11, 1985 at Natchez, MS: 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: Beech 58 · operated under 091
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 September 30, 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