Gardner David W KITFOX
N996DG is a Gardner David W KITFOX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sequim, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 7, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gardner David W
- Model
- KITFOX
- Serial number
- 996
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- ADE93F (octal 53364477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 7, 1993
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00103602
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gardner David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 111 Lupine Dr
Sequim, WA 98382-9650
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.
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The public federal record on N996DG, 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 Gardner David W, an individual, certificate issued October 24, 1991, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 7, 1993, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 996 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N996DG 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 N996DG: Accident on September 15, 2002 at Fairbanks, AK: 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: Gardner KITFOX · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to an engine bearing failure during the takeoff initial climb. A factor in the accident was unsuitable terrain for a forced landing.
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