Walker Donald R S Z CH 601 HDS
N601AV is a Walker Donald R S Z CH 601 HDS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kilgore, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 8, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Walker Donald R
- Model
- S Z CH 601 HDS
- Serial number
- 6-3033
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO ZODIAC 601 HDS
- Transponder code
- A7CB0A (octal 51745412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 8, 1999
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00163906
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vandoren Alan J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1401 Crescent Dr
Kilgore, TX 75662-3452
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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 1
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The public federal record on N601AV, 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 Vandoren Alan J, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 8, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-3033 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N601AV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A36 (serial E1763, cancelled March 17, 1997). 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]
1 NTSB record under N601AV: Accident on October 12, 1994 at Amityville, NY: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A36 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. Also causal was the inspector's improper inflight decision to simulate an emergency beyong the gliding distance to a suitable landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95LA008 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
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