Dean William E ZENITH ZODIAC 601XL
N969WD is a Dean William E ZENITH ZODIAC 601XL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in La Veta, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 1, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dean William E
- Model
- ZENITH ZODIAC 601XL
- Serial number
- 6-5349
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- ZENITH AIRCRAFT CO ZODIAC 601 XL
- Transponder code
- AD7F8D (octal 53277615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2011
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 1, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00161279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moore Lawrence Y
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 597
La Veta, CO 81055-0597
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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 N969WD, 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 Moore Lawrence Y, an individual, certificate issued July 7, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 1, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6-5349 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N969WD 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]
1 NTSB record under N969WD: Accident on March 10, 2023 at La Veta, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Zenith Zodiac 601XL · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to fly the airplane in which he had no experience in strong, gusting wind, which resulted his failure to maintain proper airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack and a subsequent aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data