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N601LE

Long Charles F ZENITH 601 HDS

Valid Texas

N601LE is a Long Charles F ZENITH 601 HDS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 22, 2005. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Long Charles F
Model
ZENITH 601 HDS
Serial number
64005
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
ZENITH ACFT CO ZODIAC 601 HDS
Transponder code
A7CBF5 (octal 51745765)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 15, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 15, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 22, 2005
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00122769

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Matthews Jerald M
Type
Individual
Address
3906 Monteverde Way
San Antonio, TX 78261-2949

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-25Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N601LE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Matthews Jerald M, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 64005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N601LE according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 25, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N601LE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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