Ridenour Wendell Ray CH-601 HDS
N6271F is a Ridenour Wendell Ray CH-601 HDS, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Elkhart, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 1996 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 20, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ridenour Wendell Ray
- Model
- CH-601 HDS
- Serial number
- 6-3234
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A832BF (octal 52031277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 22, 1996
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 20, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00685931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ridenour Wendell R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 23388 County Road 106
Elkhart, IN 46514-9785
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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 N6271F, 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 Ridenour Wendell R, an individual, certificate issued April 22, 1996, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 20, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-3234 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6271F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 337A (serial 3370271, cancelled August 12, 1991). 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]
2 NTSB records under N6271F: Accident on April 30, 2024 at Bristol, IN: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Accident on March 17, 1984 at Genesee, WI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Zenith CH601 · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of control during the descent for reasons that could not be determined, which resulted in a steep descent into terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24FA170 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 337A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84LA132 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
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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