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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Nelson Burl ZENITH 701
N71ZA is a Nelson Burl ZENITH 701, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Batesville, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 24, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nelson Burl
- Model
- ZENITH 701
- Serial number
- 7-7186
- 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 912UL · 80 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO STOL CH 701
- Transponder code
- A97BF4 (octal 52275764)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 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 24, 2010
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01041550
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mitchell Thomas H
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 685 Lake Susie Rd
Batesville, MS 38606-6912
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N71ZA links to the rest of the register
- Nelson Burl 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912UL 134 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Batesville, MS 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Panola County · PMU
- Mississippi 2,601 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N71ZA.json.
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The public federal record on N71ZA, 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 Mitchell Thomas H, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 24, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-7186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71ZA according to the deregistered file. [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 N71ZA. 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