Eaa Chapt 229 ZENAIR CH 601 HD
N229FF is an Eaa Chapt 229 ZENAIR CH 601 HD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 9, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Eaa Chapt 229
- Model
- ZENAIR CH 601 HD
- Serial number
- 6-3285
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A202F3 (octal 50401363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 9, 1997
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00166111
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valade Charles T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7627 W August Moon Pl
Tucson, AZ 85743-5257
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N229FF, 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.
Valid registration to Valade Charles T, an individual, certificate issued January 28, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-3285 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N229FF 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 N229FF: Accident on January 4, 2000 at Kissimmee, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Eaa Chapter 229 ZENAIR 601 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control on landing resulting in the airplane going off the side of the runway and colliding with a barricade.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00LA061 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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