Apex APEX CROSS-5X
N223CL is an Apex APEX CROSS-5X, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fremont, Nebraska. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated June 7, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Apex
- Model
- APEX CROSS-5X
- Serial number
- 02-02
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Compact Ra MZ202 · 60 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1EC63 (octal 50366143)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · June 7, 2007
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00339239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 541 W 8Th St
Fremont, NE 68025-4873
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N223CL, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02-02 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N223CL according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N223CL: Accident on September 2, 2024 at Columbus, NE: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Apex CROSS-5X · operated under 091
On September 2, 2024, about 1215 central standard time, an Apex Cross-5X weight shift trike, N223CL, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Columbus, Nebraska. The pilot sustained fatal injuries. The trike was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations part 91 personal flight. Witnesses saw the trike takeoff from a rural field near the pilot’s residence. Another pilot was flying another trike nearby and was providing guidance via radio to the accident pilot. He witnessed the accident trike become inverted and impact the garage of a residence. The trike wre…
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data