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N610DJ

Walton Daniel J SONEX

N610DJ is a Walton Daniel J SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Holly Ridge, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2010.

Aircraft

Maker
Walton Daniel J
Model
SONEX
Serial number
0959
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2010
Kit
SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
Transponder code
A7EF12 (octal 51767422)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 5, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 26, 2010
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01053716

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schroepfer Andrew M
Type
Individual
Address
300 Cedar Island Trl
Holly Ridge, NC 28445-7512

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N610DJ, 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 Schroepfer Andrew M, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 26, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0959 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N610DJ according to the deregistered file. [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 N610DJ: Accident on December 24, 2020 at Pecatonica, IL: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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

CEN21LA100Accident on December 24, 2020 at Pecatonica, IL: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Walton Daniel J SONEX · operated under 091

A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information, and the pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack following the loss of engine power, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall/spin and impact with terrain.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA100 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

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data