Davis Guy ZODIAC CH 601 HD
N9178Y is a Davis Guy ZODIAC CH 601 HD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pahrump, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 15, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Davis Guy
- Model
- ZODIAC CH 601 HD
- Serial number
- 3307
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- ACB433 (octal 53132063)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- September 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 15, 1996
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00485681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Purdy Louis John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 701 Antelope Ave
Pahrump, NV 89060-1831
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9178Y, 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 Purdy Louis John, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 15, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3307 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9178Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288690044, cancelled August 26, 1992). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9178Y. 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 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