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N171FL

Convair 440

Valid Michigan

N171FL is a Convair 440, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1956. It has 54 seats. It is registered to Ifl Group INC, a corporation in Waterford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 1994 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 29, 1959.

Aircraft

Maker
Convair
Model
440 · all 440s and related versions
Serial number
318
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · Allison 501-D13 SER · 3750 hp
Seats
54
Year built
1956
Cruising speed
234 mph
Transponder code
A11D6C (octal 50216554)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 13, 1994
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · June 29, 1959
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00341013

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ifl Group INC
Type
Corporation
Address
6860 South Service Drive
Waterford, MI 48327

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 N171FL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ifl Group INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 13, 1994, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 29, 1959, 3 years after the 1956 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 318 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N171FL according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N171FL: Accident on May 11, 2012 at Ciudad De Guatemala: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DCA12WA073Accident on May 11, 2012 at Ciudad De Guatemala: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Convair 440 · operated under 121

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA12WA073 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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