Dankovich James M ZENITH ZODIAC 601 XL
N601JS is a Dankovich James M ZENITH ZODIAC 601 XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rowland Heights, California. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported, canceled". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dankovich James M
- Model
- ZENITH ZODIAC 601 XL
- Serial number
- 64288
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO ZODIAC CH601XL
- Transponder code
- A7CBCF (octal 51745717)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported, canceled
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- January 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00845860
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18351 Colima Rd # 435
Rowland Heights, CA 91748-2791
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
Records check free · 4 to understand · 1 clear
The public federal record on N601JS, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported, canceled". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 64288 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N601JS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper AEROSTAR 600 (serial 60-0553-179, cancelled March 30, 2000). 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 N601JS: Accident on May 29, 1999 at Montgomery, AL: 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: Piper PA-60-600 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent shutdown of the wrong engine that resulted in the total loss of engine power. A factor was the loss of engine power due to fuel starvation when the left fuel boost pump failed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL99LA098 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