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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Eldon L Thompson STOL CH-701
N5611B is an Eldon L Thompson STOL CH-701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Decatur, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 26, 2013.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eldon L Thompson
- Model
- STOL CH-701
- Serial number
- 7-7194
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jabiru 2200 · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO STOL CH 701
- Transponder code
- A72D1E (octal 51626436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2020
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 26, 2013
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01116965
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Peterson John W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 117 County Road 4471
Decatur, TX 76234
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5611B links to the rest of the register
- Eldon L Thompson 1 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 2200 147 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Decatur, TX 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Bishop Airport · 76T
- Decatur Municipal · LUD
- Heritage Creek Airstrip Airport · 58T
- Lazy G Bar Ranch Airport · 09T
- 1 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N5611B, 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 Peterson John W, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2020, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 26, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-7194 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5611B 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 N5611B. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data