{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-09-27","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-05-09","city":"BURLINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"063","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"55555","engine_horsepower":0,"engine_maker":"ROTAX","engine_model":"SEE BOMBADIER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Stewart J/Schutte A","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"STEWART J/SCHUTTE A","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05630U3","mode_s_code":"51716217","mode_s_hex":"A79C8F","model":"STORCH","n_number":"N59RK","name":"KITR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Georgetown","damage":"SUBS","date":"2005-07-26","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"IAD05FA110","probable_cause":"The pilot's misjudged distance/altitude while on final approach to land, which resulted in an in-flight collision with a vehicle.  Factors associated with the accident are the pilot's improper use of the flaps, and the state of Delaware's insufficient standards for private airports, which allowed the runway threshold to be in close proximity to a public road.","registration":"N59RK","state":"DE","summary":"Accident on July 26, 2005 at Georgetown, DE: fatal, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N59RK is a Stewart J/Schutte A STORCH, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Kitr LLC, an LLC in Burlington, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kitr LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0041 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N59RK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 2890196, cancelled November 29, 2005). 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 N59RK: Accident on July 26, 2005 at Georgetown, DE: fatal, 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":2,"serial_number":"0041","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 130","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01069066","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N59RK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2011,"zip":"808070130"}