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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Beech C17L
N15846 is a Beech C17L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1936. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Sullivan Michael A, a partnership in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C17L · all C17Ls and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Staggerwing: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all under fabric. This is how the Beechcraft C17 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
- 89
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Jacobs L4 /R755-7 · 245 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1936
- Cruising speed
- 123 mph
- Transponder code
- A0EAEA (octal 50165352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- 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
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00891310
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sullivan Michael A
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1555 Sky Valley Dr Apt C101
Reno, NV 89523-9113 - Co-owners
- Gills Robert W
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 N15846 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft C17 11 registered
- Beech 17,445 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Jacobs L4 /R755-7 225 aircraft with this engine series · 245 hp
- Sullivan Michael A 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Reno, NV 666 aircraft registered in this town
- Reno/Tahoe International · RNO
- Reno/Stead Airport · RTS
- Spanish Springs Airport · N86
- Nevada 4,591 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft C17 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft C17 3 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Jacobs L4 /R755-7 16 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N15846, 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 Sullivan Michael A, a partnership, certificate issued August 18, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 89 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N15846 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 N15846: Accident on October 16, 1982 at Mcconnell Afb, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech E17L · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data