{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-07-29","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"STATESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"097","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55592","engine_horsepower":80,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"912UL","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"SKYSTAR ACFT CO","kit_model":"KITFOX MODEL 4-1200","last_action_date":"2026-07-15","maker":"Witte Earl","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WITTE EARL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05615IE","mode_s_code":"51145005","mode_s_hex":"A4CA05","model":"KITFOX 4-1200","n_number":"N4077X","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"CALDWELL","damage":"SUBS","date":"1986-08-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"SEA86LA223","probable_cause":"","registration":"N4077X","state":"ID","summary":"Accident on August 24, 1986 at Caldwell, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4077X is a Witte Earl KITFOX 4-1200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Statesville, North Carolina. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JCU-104 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4077X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Roebbelen Hans AVID FLYER AMPHIBIAN (serial 74A, cancelled December 10, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N4077X: Accident on August 24, 1986 at Caldwell, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"JCU-104","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"390 LIBERTY HILL RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00042729","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4077X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"286258887"}