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N128CF

Richards David Stanley Iii Z701

Valid Texas

N128CF is a Richards David Stanley Iii Z701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ackerly, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 6, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Richards David Stanley Iii
Model
Z701
Serial number
75203
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Hirth 3701 · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A071A2 (octal 50070642)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 27, 2026
Expires
March 31, 2033
Last FAA action
March 27, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 6, 2009
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00278449

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Snell Marion Lea
Type
Individual
Address
3108 County Rd W
Ackerly, TX 79713-4070

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2001-06-22British Aircraft Corp BAC 1-11 401/AK · exported to Aruba · Valid registration
—Frazier Charles S GOLDWING · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N128CF, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Snell Marion Lea, an individual, certificate issued March 27, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75203 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N128CF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: British Aircraft Corp BAC 1-11 401/AK (serial 061, cancelled June 22, 2001); Frazier Charles S GOLDWING (serial 128, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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. [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N128CF: Accident on April 6, 2011 at El Centro, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR11LA187Accident on April 6, 2011 at El Centro, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Zenith 701 · operated under 091

A partial loss of engine power during the initial climb after takeoff due to oil starvation because of the failure of the No. 2 oil pump drive coupling.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data