Richard Wayne Sears STOL CH 701
N701Y is a Richard Wayne Sears STOL CH 701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Springboro, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 1, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Richard Wayne Sears
- Model
- STOL CH 701
- Serial number
- 7-11446
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS2 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO STOL CH 701
- Transponder code
- A95A6B (octal 52255153)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 1, 2025
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01402511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sears Richard W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 509 W Lower Springboro Rd
Springboro, OH 45066-8660
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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
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The public federal record on N701Y, 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 Sears Richard W, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 1, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-11446 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N701Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman G-164 (serial 313, cancelled October 15, 2012). 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]
1 NTSB record under N701Y: Accident on June 3, 1983 at Alligator, MS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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