No free picture of N69601 or its model is known to the site yet; spotters' pictures may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Waterson Frank ZODIAC 601XL
N69601 is a Waterson Frank ZODIAC 601XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 4, 2009.
Where is it now checking the live feed…
Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…
Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.
Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map
Aircraft
- Maker
- Waterson Frank
- Model
- ZODIAC 601XL
- Serial number
- 6-6871
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2009
- Kit
- ZENITH AIRCRAFT CO ZODIAC 601 XL
- Transponder code
- A94372 (octal 52241562)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 4, 2009
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01028277
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Starnes Michael T
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4619 Shavano Ct
San Antonio, TX 78230-5888 - Co-owners
- Leone Lance D
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
Connections how N69601 links to the rest of the register
- Waterson Frank 1 aircraft on the register
- Jabiru 3300 475 aircraft with this engine series · 120 hp
- San Antonio, TX 786 aircraft registered in this town
- Kelly Field · SKF
- San Antonio International · SAT
- Stinson Municipal · SSF
- Boerne Stage Airfield · 5C1
- 5 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N69601.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N69601, 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 Starnes Michael T, a co-owned, certificate issued May 20, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 4, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-6871 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N69601 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62C (serial 4333AE, cancelled January 14, 1955). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N69601. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data