Beech D17S
N16M is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arvada, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 1988 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 30, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 6765
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F068 (octal 50170150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 1988
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 30, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00421900
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jacobsen Chris
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9961 W 86 Place
Arvada, CO 80005
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N16M, 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 Jacobsen Chris, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 1988, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 30, 1956, 12 years after the 1944 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6765 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16M 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]
2 NTSB records under N16M: Accident on June 28, 2015 at Idaho Falls, ID: no injuries, minor damage. Accident on September 14, 1990 at Englewood, CO: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech D17S · operated under 091
While taxiing as a flight of two, the pilot of the blue Beechcraft became distracted and impacted the red Beechcraft which had stopped.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA145 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech D17S · operated under 091
IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT AND INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT BY THE VEHICLE DRIVER, WHICH RESULTED IN THEIR FAILURE TO ASSURE CLEARANCE BETWEEN THE VEHICLE AND AIRCRAFT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: SUNGLARE AND THE PILOT'S RESTRICTED VIEW FROM THE TAILWHEEL EQUIPPED AIRCRAFT, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS LACK OF VISUAL CUES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN90LA186 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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