diff --git a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/BUILD b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/BUILD
index 74eb5e97218..77b98f39bb3 100644
--- a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/BUILD
+++ b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/BUILD
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ go_library(
     ],
     tags = ["automanaged"],
     deps = [
+        "//pkg/api:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/api/util:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema:go_default_library",
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ go_test(
     tags = ["automanaged"],
     deps = [
         ":go_default_library",
+        "//pkg/api/testapi:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi:go_default_library",
         "//pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/testing:go_default_library",
         "//vendor/github.com/onsi/ginkgo:go_default_library",
diff --git a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation.go b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation.go
index afb51fd9af3..08bc6a573bd 100644
--- a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation.go
+++ b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	utilerrors "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/errors"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/json"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/yaml"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
 	apiutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/util"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi"
 )
@@ -75,6 +76,12 @@ func (v *SchemaValidation) validateList(object interface{}) []error {
 }
 
 func (v *SchemaValidation) validateResource(obj interface{}, gvk schema.GroupVersionKind) []error {
+	if !api.Registry.IsEnabledVersion(gvk.GroupVersion()) {
+		// if we don't have this in our scheme, just skip
+		// validation because its an object we don't recognize
+		return nil
+	}
+
 	resource := v.resources.LookupResource(gvk)
 	if resource == nil {
 		return []error{fmt.Errorf("unknown object type %#v", gvk)}
diff --git a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation_test.go b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation_test.go
index 3eb3975dc9d..8454db46880 100644
--- a/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation_test.go
+++ b/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation/validation_test.go
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ import (
 	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
 
 	utilerrors "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/errors"
+	// This dependency is needed to register API types.
+	_ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/testapi"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi"
 	tst "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/testing"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util/openapi/validation"