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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026
N701WS

Swope M Wayne SIEMENS-SCHUKERT D1

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArizona

N701WS is a Swope M Wayne SIEMENS-SCHUKERT D1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wings of Flight Foundation, a corporation in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 3, 2001.

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Aircraft

Maker
Swope M Wayne
Model
SIEMENS-SCHUKERT D1
Serial number
001WS
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 · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
1
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A95A4A (octal 52255112)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 6, 2021
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
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 · May 3, 2001
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00153715

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wings of Flight Foundation
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4626 e Fighter Aces Dr
Mesa, AZ 85215-2502

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N701WS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Mesa, AZ 714 aircraft registered in this town
  • Falcon Field · FFZ
  • Arizona 8,436 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N701WS, 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 Wings of Flight Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued December 6, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 3, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001WS for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N701WS 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 N701WS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data