Varga Aircraft Corp. 2150A
N5601G is a Varga Aircraft Corp. 2150A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 26, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Varga Aircraft Corp.
- Model
- 2150A · all 2150As and related versions
- Serial number
- VAC189-85
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A7296C (octal 51624554)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 26, 1985
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00280196
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Retzlaff Cathy S
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3221 Elk Ridge Dr Unit D
Oshkosh, WI 54904-6721 - Co-owners
- Barclay Alexander
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N5601G, 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 Retzlaff Cathy S, a co-owned, certificate issued December 31, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 26, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial VAC189-85 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5601G 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]
2 NTSB records under N5601G: Accident on July 27, 2023 at Green Lake, WI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 16, 1986 at Kiln, MS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Varga Aircraft CORP. 2150A · operated under 091
A loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion, which resulted from the pilot’s inadequate preflight planning.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA329 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Varga 2150A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA86LA160 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data