{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1996-04-17","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-05-05","city":"CEDAR PARK","country_code":"US","county_code":"491","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"09050","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"BOMBARDIER","engine_model":"ROTAX (ALL)","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Atkin Wesley H","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"ATKIN WESLEY H","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05623F9","mode_s_code":"51465673","mode_s_hex":"A66BBB","model":"KITFOX IV","n_number":"N51234","name":"SWARTS CHARLES J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DESCANSO","damage":"DEST","date":"1988-06-30","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"LAX88FA240","probable_cause":"PILOT'S POOR JUDGMENT AND INTENTIONAL DECISION TO LOW FLY THE AIRCRAFT BELOW THE MINIMUM SAFE ALTITUDE.","registration":"N51234","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on June 30, 1988 at Descanso, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N51234 is an Atkin Wesley H KITFOX IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cedar Park, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 1996.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Swarts Charles J, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 17, 1996, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1884 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N51234 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274285, cancelled March 21, 1989); Cessna 150J (serial 15069858, cancelled March 7, 1972). 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 N51234: Accident on June 30, 1988 at Descanso, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1884","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"3006 WHITE POST RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00394362","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N51234","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1995,"zip":"786135437"}