Hughes Byron D KITFOX CLASSIC IV
N97C is a Hughes Byron D KITFOX CLASSIC IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bristol, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Byron D
- Model
- KITFOX CLASSIC IV
- Serial number
- 96120182
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AD817E (octal 53300576)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 27, 1998
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00456461
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coleman David B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 125 Ten Mile Brook Rd
Bristol, NH 03222-3390
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N97C, 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 Coleman David B, an individual, certificate issued March 10, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 96120182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T-337 (serial P3370134, cancelled May 18, 1976); Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G (serial 3258, cancelled November 1, 1957). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N97C. 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 August 27, 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