Canadair Ltd CL-600 CHALLENGER
N601DF is a Canadair Ltd CL-600 CHALLENGER, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines. It has 13 seats. It is registered to E D Santos & Associates LLC Trustee, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated May 6, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadair Ltd
- Model
- CL-600 CHALLENGER · all CL-600 CHALLENGERs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Lycoming ALF-502 SER. · 7500 hp
- Seats
- 13
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A7CB47 (octal 51745507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · May 6, 1982
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00884212
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- E D Santos & Associates LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N601DF, 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 E D Santos & Associates LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued May 24, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N601DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith AEROSTAR 601 (serial 61-0014, cancelled February 2, 2006). 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 N601DF: Accident on December 30, 2004 at Hamilton, MT: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Aerostar 601 · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to the lack of lubrication and subsequent failure of the left engine's right turbocharger for undetermined reasons, and subsequent forced landing after takeoff. A factor was the unsuitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA05LA032 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