Smith AEROSTAR 601
N601AL is a Smith AEROSTAR 601, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Valley Group INC, a corporation in Fishersville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 601 · all AEROSTAR 601s and related versions
- Serial number
- 61-0036-73
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- A7CB01 (octal 51745401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 28, 1969
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00652557
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valley Group INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 359
Fishersville, VA 22939-0359
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N601AL, 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 Valley Group INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 3, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61-0036-73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N601AL 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 N601AL. 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