{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1995-11-03","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-01-21","city":"SANTAQUIN","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41506","engine_horsepower":140,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-290 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-30","maker":"Krokker Kermit","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"KROKKER KERMIT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05601IE","mode_s_code":"53151577","mode_s_hex":"ACD37F","model":"KROKKER","n_number":"N9253A","name":"BOWMAN GERALD L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"BATTLE CREEK","damage":"DEST","date":"1989-07-07","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"CHI89FA128","probable_cause":"THE FLIGHT CREW INADVERTENTLY SHUT DOWN THE LEFT ENGINE AFTER THE RIGHT ENGINE LOST POWER, AND THE COPILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT WHILE MANEUVERING THE AIRCRAFT BACK TOWARD THE RUNWAY.  FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE:  IMPROPER POSITIONING OF THE FUEL SELECTOR (PROBABLY) BY THE COPILOT AND IMPROPER MONITORING BY THE OTHER PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL STARVATION TO THE RIGHT ENGINE.","registration":"N9253A","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on July 7, 1989 at Battle Creek, MI: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"BOWMAN IRMA L","plain_english":"N9253A is a Krokker Kermit KROKKER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Santaquin, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 3, 1995.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Bowman Gerald L, a co-owned, certificate issued January 21, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9253A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH45, cancelled September 1, 1989); Cessna 170A (serial 19014, cancelled March 9, 1951). 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 N9253A: Accident on July 7, 1989 at Battle Creek, MI: fatal, destroyed (3 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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"1","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"471 E 450 S","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00505562","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9253A","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"846558059"}