{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2000-06-16","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"GRASS VALLEY","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"27023","engine_horsepower":235,"engine_maker":"FRANKLIN","engine_model":"6A-350SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"ZENITH ACFT CO","kit_model":"ZENITH 801","last_action_date":"2026-09-12","maker":"Butner V L/Butner M D","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BUTNER V L/BUTNER M D","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05608F0","mode_s_code":"50621423","mode_s_hex":"A32313","model":"ZENITH 801","n_number":"N301AK","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N301AK is a Butner V L/Butner M D ZENITH 801, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grass Valley, California. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 16, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8-3948 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N301AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3 (serial 19-778, cancelled December 22, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N301AK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"8-3948","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CA","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"10737 RAINBOW RIDGE RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00773543","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N301AK","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"959499406"}