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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Trontvet Kent A RANS S-12 AIRAILE
N998KT is a Trontvet Kent A RANS S-12 AIRAILE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Birchwood, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Trontvet Kent A
- Model
- RANS S-12 AIRAILE
- Serial number
- 0493402
- 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 · Rotax 582 · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- ADF14E (octal 53370516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2025
- 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 · July 9, 2026
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00604732
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dakins Bruce
- 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
- 14188 W Shrock Rd
Birchwood, WI 54817-2101
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N998KT links to the rest of the register
- Trontvet Kent A 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582 62 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Birchwood, WI 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Wisconsin 6,161 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N998KT.json.
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The public federal record on N998KT, 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 Dakins Bruce, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 9, 2026, 32 years after the 1994 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0493402 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N998KT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N998KT. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data