Beausoleil Barry R ACRO SPORT-1
N1717 is a Beausoleil Barry R ACRO SPORT-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Westfield, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 22, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beausoleil Barry R
- Model
- ACRO SPORT-1
- Serial number
- 5431521
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A12031 (octal 50220061)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · February 22, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00602320
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Jeffrey V
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15483 Edenvale Dr
Westfield, IN 46074-7531
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1717, 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 Nelson Jeffrey V, an individual, certificate issued June 28, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 22, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5431521 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1717 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Lockheed 14-N2 (serial 7419, cancelled May 18, 1965); Waco ZVN-8 (serial 5115, cancelled April 26, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1717: Accident on May 9, 1987 at Englewood, CO: 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: Beausoleil ACRO SPORT · operated under 091
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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data