{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2026-04-21","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-07-08","city":"YACOLT","country_code":"US","county_code":"011","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":"2028-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-26","maker":"Croft Robert C","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CROFT ROBERT C","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05616KV","mode_s_code":"52617601","mode_s_hex":"AB1F81","model":"KITFOX 2","n_number":"N81589","name":"ROTSCHY GRAYSON B","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"DES MOINES","damage":"DEST","date":"1985-11-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"MKC86MA031","probable_cause":"","registration":"N81589","state":"IA","summary":"Accident on November 25, 1985 at Des Moines, IA: fatal, destroyed (7 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N81589 is a Croft Robert C KITFOX 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yacolt, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2026.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Rotschy Grayson B, an individual, certificate issued July 8, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 21, 2026, 37 years after the 1989 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 307 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N81589 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-208, cancelled March 23, 1954); Rockwell International 500-S (serial 3297, cancelled date not given). 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 N81589: Accident on November 25, 1985 at Des Moines, IA: fatal, destroyed (7 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":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"307","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"31219 NE KELLY RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00554531","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N81589","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1989,"zip":"986753023"}