Mikelson James H ZENITH 601 XL
N459S is a Mikelson James H ZENITH 601 XL, 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 San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2005 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mikelson James H
- Model
- ZENITH 601 XL
- Serial number
- 64924
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO ZODIAC CH601XL
- Transponder code
- A5951B (octal 51312433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2005
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00066729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eskew William V
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4860 Pepperwood Way
San Jose, CA 95124-5218
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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 N459S, 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 Eskew William V, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 2005, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 2, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 64924 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N459S 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 N459S. 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