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N817DJ

Morgan Marvin R ZENAIR CH701 STOL

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOhio

N817DJ is a Morgan Marvin R ZENAIR CH701 STOL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oakwood, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2008 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 3, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Morgan Marvin R
Model
ZENAIR CH701 STOL
Serial number
7-9244
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
Seats
2
Year built
2001
Kit
AIRLINK TECHNOLOGIES ZENAIR CH 701 STOL
Transponder code
AB23B1 (octal 52621661)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
May 13, 2008
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 3, 2001
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00773927

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dobbelaere Craig M
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
20772 Road 88
Oakwood, OH 45873-9457

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Documents on file 0

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

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The public federal record on N817DJ, 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 Dobbelaere Craig M, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 2008, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 3, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7-9244 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N817DJ 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N817DJ: Accident on December 24, 2006 at Lithia, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

MIA07CA030Accident on December 24, 2006 at Lithia, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Morgan, Marvin R. Zenair CH701 STOL · operated under 091

Collapse of the nosegear for undetermined reasons.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 September 30, 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