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N996SP

Aerosport Ltd IKARUS C42

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N996SP is an Aerosport Ltd IKARUS C42, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dunnellon, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated October 12, 2006.

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Aircraft

Maker
Aerosport Ltd
Model
IKARUS C42
Serial number
0606-6817
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Transponder code
ADEA8B (octal 53365213)

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 9, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 9, 2024
Airworthiness
Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 12, 2006
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00261799

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bittinger Nathan R
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
8314 SW 196Th Court Rd
Dunnellon, FL 34432-3598

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N996SP links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Dunnellon, FL 39 aircraft registered in this town
  • Marion County · X35
  • Florida 21,696 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N996SP, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bittinger Nathan R, an individual, certificate issued August 9, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane, dated October 12, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0606-6817 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N996SP according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N996SP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data