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N701SJ

Johnston Stephen P ZENITH 701

Valid Minnesota

N701SJ is a Johnston Stephen P ZENITH 701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hawley, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 14, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Johnston Stephen P
Model
ZENITH 701
Serial number
5152
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Kit
ZENITH ACFT CO STOL CH 701
Transponder code
A959DE (octal 52254736)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 21, 2003
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 14, 2006
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00072099

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Johnston Stephen P
Type
Individual
Address
27107 12Th Ave S
Hawley, MN 56549-9139

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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 N701SJ, 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 Johnston Stephen P, an individual, certificate issued November 21, 2003, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 14, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5152 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N701SJ 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N701SJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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

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