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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Gippsland GA-8
N601BZ is a Gippsland GA-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to N501Bz LLC, an LLC in Boca Raton, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsland
- Model
- GA-8 · all GA-8s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Gippsland GA-8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- GA-8-04-064
- 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
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A7CB27 (octal 51745447)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00177609
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N501Bz LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2889 NW 24 Ct
Boca Raton, FL 33431
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N601BZ links to the rest of the register
- Gippsland GA-8 21 registered
- Gippsland 23 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- N501Bz LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Boca Raton, FL 335 aircraft registered in this town
- Boca Raton Airport · BCT
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Gippsland GA-8 1 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N601BZ.json.
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The public federal record on N601BZ, 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 N501Bz LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 25, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA-8-04-064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N601BZ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sewell William K ZODIAC 601 XL (serial 6-4930, cancelled May 25, 2016). 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 N601BZ: Accident on March 29, 2016 at Clarksville, VA: no 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: Sewell William K ZODIAC 601 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff, which resulted in the airplane drifting to the left of the runway and impacting trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data