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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Burkey Dale R SONEX ONEX
N801DB is a Burkey Dale R SONEX ONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Walnut, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 21, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Burkey Dale R
- Model
- SONEX ONEX
- Serial number
- ONX0197
- 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 · Aerovee 2.1 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2020
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC ONEX
- Transponder code
- AAE5E1 (octal 52562741)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · October 21, 2020
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01316596
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burkey Dale R
- 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
- PO Box 51
Walnut, IL 61376-0051
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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
Connections how N801DB links to the rest of the register
- Burkey Dale R 1 aircraft on the register
- AeroVee 2.1 66 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Walnut, IL 45 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N801DB.json.
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The public federal record on N801DB, 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 Burkey Dale R, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 21, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ONX0197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N801DB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: S N I A S AS350D ASTAR (serial 1195, cancelled November 26, 2014). 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 N801DB: Accident on December 16, 1982 at Houston, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: S.N.I.A.S. AS350D · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data