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N7781C

Drake Donald J HATZ CB-1

Valid New York

N7781C is a Drake Donald J HATZ CB-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rochester, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 13, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Drake Donald J
Model
HATZ CB-1
Serial number
590
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E3D · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2013
Transponder code
AA893D (octal 52504475)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 6, 2011
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 13, 2013
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01085272

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Drake Donald J
Type
Individual
Address
480 French Rd
Rochester, NY 14618-5373

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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

1970-07-08Douglas DC3C · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7781C, 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 Drake Donald J, an individual, certificate issued December 6, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 13, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 590 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7781C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3C (serial 26763, cancelled July 8, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N7781C. 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