Ballew James W ZODIAC CH 601XL
N86EK is a Ballew James W ZODIAC CH 601XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Compass Builder Services Nf INC, a corporation in Green Cove Springs, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ballew James W
- Model
- ZODIAC CH 601XL
- Serial number
- 6061
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Corvair GO-140 · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- ZENITH ACFT CO ZODIAC CH601XL
- Transponder code
- ABCCEC (octal 52746354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 28, 2012
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01013513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Compass Builder Services Nf INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5618 Millie Way
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043-8964
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N86EK, 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 Compass Builder Services Nf INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N86EK 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 N86EK. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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