Adam Messer ZENITH CH701
N494DC is an Adam Messer ZENITH CH701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 18, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adam Messer
- Model
- ZENITH CH701
- Serial number
- 7-5430
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO ZENITH CH 701
- Transponder code
- A61F42 (octal 51417502)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2012
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 18, 2013
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01104745
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Messer Adam C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 240 Mooreland Ave
Carlisle, PA 17013-3722
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N494DC, 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 Messer Adam C, an individual, certificate issued October 26, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 18, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-5430 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N494DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0194, cancelled April 9, 2008). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N494DC. 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