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N3965V

Mandell Tom CH 601 HDS

N3965V is a Mandell Tom CH 601 HDS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Roseville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Mandell Tom
Model
CH 601 HDS
Serial number
6-3842
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Kit
ZENITH AIRCRAFT COMPANY CH 601 HDS
Transponder code
A49C2E (octal 51116056)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 20, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 15, 2010
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00429499

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mandell Tom
Type
Individual
Address
316 Orkney Ct
Roseville, CA 95661-6056

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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 2

1976-10-28Cessna 150M · exported to Australia · Valid registration
1962-12-05Cessna 170 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3965V, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mandell Tom, an individual, certificate issued November 20, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-3842 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3965V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15076667, cancelled October 28, 1976); Cessna 170 (serial 18284, cancelled December 5, 1962). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3965V. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data