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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Jones 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Jones R C/Spratford W
- Model
- KITFOX III
- Serial number
- 1209
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AD59FB (octal 53254773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 27, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00975611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hunter Kinerly e N
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N96BW links to the rest of the register
- Jones R C/Spratford W 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Newcastle, CA 18 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,134 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N96BW.json.
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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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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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data