Smith AEROSTAR 601
N601X is a Smith AEROSTAR 601, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Smc Developers INC, a corporation in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 601 · all AEROSTAR 601s and related versions
- Serial number
- 61-0393-117
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- A7CD03 (octal 51746403)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 24, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00514470
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smc Developers INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5655 Silver Valley Creek Rd
Ste 630
San Jose, CA 95138
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N601X, 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 Smc Developers INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 27, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61-0393-117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N601X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stokes M. E. SF (serial SW-4-1, cancelled June 17, 1970). 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 N601X: Accident on April 24, 2020 at Craig, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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
The student pilot’s flight into terrain for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20LA160 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