Gary Burtoft KOLB FIRESTAR
N946KG is a Gary Burtoft KOLB FIRESTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 8, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gary Burtoft
- Model
- KOLB FIRESTAR
- Serial number
- F04-1-00073
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- KOLB COMPANY INC FIRESTAR
- Transponder code
- AD245A (octal 53222132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 8, 2026
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01526543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burtoft Gary
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 123 Bluff Vw
Dry Ridge, KY 41035-7163 - Co-owners
- Burtoft Kay
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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 · 5 clear
The public federal record on N946KG, 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 Burtoft Gary, a co-owned, certificate issued March 3, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 8, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F04-1-00073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N946KG 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 N946KG. 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