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N801DB

Burkey Dale R SONEX ONEX

Valid Illinois

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Burkey Dale R
Model
SONEX ONEX
Serial number
ONX0197
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
Certificate issued
September 10, 2020
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 21, 2020
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01316596

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Burkey Dale R
Type
Individual
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

2014-11-26S N I A S AS350D ASTAR · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Burkey Dale R, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 21, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ONX0197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N801DB: Accident on December 16, 1982 at Houston, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW83FRA03Accident on December 16, 1982 at Houston, TX: serious injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 1195

Aircraft on the NTSB record: S.N.I.A.S. AS350D · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW83FRA03 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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