Jones R C/Spratford W KITFOX III
N96BW is a Jones R C/Spratford W KITFOX III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Newcastle, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jones R C/Spratford W
- Model
- KITFOX III
- Serial number
- 1209
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AD59FB (octal 53254773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 27, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00975611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hunter Kinerly E N
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1615 Quail Rd
Newcastle, CA 95658-9632 - Co-owners
- Wilkins Andrew / Ajaji Gregory R E
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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 N96BW, 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 Hunter Kinerly E N, a co-owned, certificate issued August 4, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96BW 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]
1 NTSB record under N96BW: Accident on December 14, 1991 at Roseau, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 690A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN PROPER ALIGNMENT WITH, AND NOT SELECTING THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT ON THE LANDING RUNWAY. FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACCIDENT ARE A DARK NIGHT LIGHT CONDITION AND CROSSWINDS.
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