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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Ralph A Hudson ZODIAC CH 601 XLB
N234S is a Ralph A Hudson ZODIAC CH 601 XLB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cody, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 5, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ralph A Hudson
- Model
- ZODIAC CH 601 XLB
- Serial number
- 7165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-290 · 125 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- ZENITH AIRCRAFT CO ZODIAC 601 XL
- Transponder code
- A218EC (octal 50414354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 5, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01100074
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nicholson Jim J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 3212
Cody, WY 82414-5913
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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
Connections how N234S links to the rest of the register
- Ralph A Hudson 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-290 46 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- Cody, WY 84 aircraft registered in this town
- Yellowstone Regional · COD
- Wyoming 3,234 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-290 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-290 20 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N234S.json.
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The public federal record on N234S, 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 Nicholson Jim J, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2023, expires May 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 7165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N234S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D18S (serial A-115, cancelled October 9, 2009). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N234S: Accident on August 2, 2015 at Hubbard, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hudson ZODIAC CH 601 XLB · operated under 091
A severe propeller vibration due to the pilot's improper installation of the propeller spacer assembly, which necessitated an engine shutdown, an off-airport landing, and a collision with a sprinkler system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data