{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2024-05-17","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-08-28","city":"NEW CARLISLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"141","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"34800","engine_horsepower":85,"engine_maker":"JABIRU","engine_model":"2200","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"SKYSTAR ACFT CO","kit_model":"KITFOX IV SPEEDSTER","last_action_date":"2023-08-28","maker":"Huff Randy L","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"HUFF RANDY L","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05641MG","mode_s_code":"53343723","mode_s_hex":"ADC7D3","model":"KITFOX IV SPEEDSTER","n_number":"N9872R","name":"HUFF RANDY L","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"San Pedro","damage":"SUBS","date":"2016-02-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR16FA065","probable_cause":"The failure of the pilots of both airplanes to see and avoid each other as they converged nearly head-on, which resulted in a midair collision. Contributing to the accident was the effect of sun glare on the other pilot.","registration":"N9872R","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on February 5, 2016 at San Pedro, CA: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9872R is a Huff Randy L KITFOX IV SPEEDSTER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Carlisle, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 17, 2024.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Huff Randy L, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 17, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FBS019 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9872R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech M35 (serial D-6425, cancelled October 6, 2017). 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 N9872R: Accident on February 5, 2016 at San Pedro, CA: fatal, substantial damage (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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"FBS019","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"27817 US HIGHWAY 20","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"01394874","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9872R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2023,"zip":"465529774"}