Smith AEROSTAR 601
N23LL is a Smith AEROSTAR 601, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ajca Farms LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 601 · all AEROSTAR 601s and related versions
- Serial number
- 61-0252-100
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- A2072C (octal 50403454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 30, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 15, 1975
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00992092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ajca Farms LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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.
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The public federal record on N23LL, 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 Ajca Farms LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 30, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61-0252-100 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23LL 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 N23LL: Accident on February 5, 2005 at Murrieta, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Smith Aerostar 601 · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of distance/altitude on final approach, which resulted in an undershoot of the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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