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N1990N

Ed G Novak 601 HD

Valid Illinois

N1990N is an Ed G Novak 601 HD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Cornell, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 23, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Ed G Novak
Model
601 HD
Serial number
8902
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200 · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Kit
ZENITH ACFT CO ZODIAC CH 601 HD
Transponder code
A18BFF (octal 50305777)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 30, 2015
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 23, 2016
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01181240

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Novak Ed G
Type
Co-owned
Address
14121 E 2600 North Rd
Cornell, IL 61319-9462
Co-owners
Novak Roxanne E

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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 1

1991-03-26Cessna 140 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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The public federal record on N1990N, 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 Novak Ed G, a co-owned, certificate issued November 30, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 23, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8902 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1990N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 12226, cancelled March 26, 1991). 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 N1990N: Accident on June 8, 1987 at Ankeny, IA: 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

MKC87LA122Accident on June 8, 1987 at Ankeny, IA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 12226

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 140 · operated under 091

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