Settlemyer Donald D ZODIAC CH601XL
N423DS is a Settlemyer Donald D ZODIAC CH601XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ankeny, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 22, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Settlemyer Donald D
- Model
- ZODIAC CH601XL
- Serial number
- 6-7088
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A50720 (octal 51203440)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 22, 2009
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01021686
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fitzgerald Christian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 915 NE Meadow Landing Dr
Ankeny, IA 50021-0026
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N423DS, 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 Fitzgerald Christian, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 22, 2009, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-7088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N423DS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N423DS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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