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N5499

Smith Dane E ZENITH CH 701

N5499 is a Smith Dane E ZENITH CH 701, 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 Seneca, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Smith Dane E
Model
ZENITH CH 701
Serial number
7-6094
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Kit
ZENITH ACFT CO STOL CH 701
Transponder code
A6FCEE (octal 51576356)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 20, 2010
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 13, 2010
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01052101

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith Dane E
Type
Individual
Address
158 W Bay View Dr
Seneca, SC 29672-4727

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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

1989-08-07Anderson COUGAR 1 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1929-01-04Timm CONVENTIONAL COACH · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5499, 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 Smith Dane E, an individual, certificate issued April 20, 2010, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 13, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-6094 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5499 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Anderson COUGAR 1 (serial CRA2, cancelled August 7, 1989); Timm CONVENTIONAL COACH (serial 100, cancelled January 4, 1929). 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 N5499. 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