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N601Q

Frank A Quitter ZENITH 601 XLB

Valid Kentucky

N601Q is a Frank A Quitter ZENITH 601 XLB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Silver Grove, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 6, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Frank A Quitter
Model
ZENITH 601 XLB
Serial number
003FQ
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300A · 120 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A7CC54 (octal 51746124)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 20, 2020
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 6, 2020
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01312654

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Quitter Frank A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 63
Silver Grove, KY 41085-0063

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 2

2013-10-29Ashford James R ZODIAC CH 601 HDS · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1984-11-15Beech K35 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N601Q, 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 Quitter Frank A, an individual, certificate issued March 20, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. 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 003FQ for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N601Q was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ashford James R ZODIAC CH 601 HDS (serial 63864, cancelled October 29, 2013); Beech K35 (serial D-5756, cancelled November 15, 1984). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N601Q: Accident on September 18, 1982 at Houston, TX: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW82DA383Accident on September 18, 1982 at Houston, TX: no injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: D5756

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beechcraft K35 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW82DA383 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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