Elkins Dennis E ZENITH ZODIAC 601HDS
N27601 is an Elkins Dennis E ZENITH ZODIAC 601HDS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Erie, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 24, 2004 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 29, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Elkins Dennis E
- Model
- ZENITH ZODIAC 601HDS
- Serial number
- 6-3887 HDS
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A2BF38 (octal 50537470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 24, 2004
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 29, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00142669
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elkins Dennis E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1332 Kanemoto Way
Erie, CO 80516-6945
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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
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The public federal record on N27601, 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 Elkins Dennis E, an individual, certificate issued November 24, 2004, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 29, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-3887 HDS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N27601 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 31-7852091, cancelled September 5, 1978). 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 N27601: Accident on July 24, 2026 at Sioux City, IA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Zenith Zodiak 601 HDS · operated under 091
On July 24, 2026, about 1422 central daylight time, a Zenith Zodiac 601HDS experimental airplane, N27601, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Sioux City, Iowa. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The multi-leg visual flight rules (VFR) cross country flight departed from the Wittman Regional Airport (KOSH), Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with a final destination in Colorado. At 1236 on the day of the accident, ADS-B data showed the airplane departed the Pocahontas Municipal Airport (KPOH), Pocahonta…
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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