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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026
N71LW

Wing Leonard A ZENITH CH-701

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMaine

N71LW is a Wing Leonard A ZENITH CH-701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bradley, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 20, 2008.

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Aircraft

Maker
Wing Leonard A
Model
ZENITH CH-701
Serial number
001
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
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 · 80 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
ZENITH ACFT CO STOL CH 701
Transponder code
A97AC3 (octal 52275303)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 25, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
September 16, 2026
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 · June 20, 2008
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00357989

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Creswell Braelan R
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
828 Main St
Bradley, ME 04411-5215
Co-owners
Maynard Devin P

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N71LW links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 912 241 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
Place
  • Bradley, ME 1 aircraft registered in this town
  • Maine 1,425 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N71LW, 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 Creswell Braelan R, a co-owned, certificate issued June 25, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

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

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N71LW 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 N71LW. 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

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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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data