Piper PA-23
N1317P is a Piper PA-23, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clearwater, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 11, 1955.
Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 11:44 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23 · all PA-23s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 23-357
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A08243 (octal 50101103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 11, 1955
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00631340
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- White Christopher N
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2147 Pleasant Pkwy
Clearwater, FL 33764-4899
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.
Connections how N1317P links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 1,315 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Clearwater, FL 145 aircraft registered in this town
- Clearwater Executive · CLW
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 76 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 516 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 569 supplemental type certificates
- Where N1317P is now · Last seen October 12 at 11:44 am.
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The public federal record on N1317P, 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 White Christopher N, an individual, certificate issued December 4, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 11, 1955, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23-357 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1317P 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 N1317P: Accident on February 1, 2024 at Louisville, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA23 · operated under 091
The failure of maintenance personnel to thoroughly inspect and repair the worn-out panel fasteners and fastener holes.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data