Smith Philip A ZENITH CH-701
N638PS is a Smith Philip A ZENITH CH-701, 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 Buhl, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Philip A
- Model
- ZENITH CH-701
- Serial number
- 7-6638
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- ZENITH AIRCRAFT CO CH701
- Transponder code
- A85CCA (octal 52056312)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2007
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 20, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00411069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Philip A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1795 River Rd
Buhl, ID 83316
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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N638PS, 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 Smith Philip A, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2007, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-6638 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N638PS according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N638PS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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