Taylor J-2
N17261 is a Taylor J-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1936. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Athens, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylor
- Model
- J-2 · all J-2s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Taylor J-2 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
- 927
- 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 · Cont Motor A40 SERIES · 40 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1936
- Cruising speed
- 59 mph
- Transponder code
- A123DF (octal 50221737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 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
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00953022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schaller Lee W
- 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
- 1410 Baldwin Rd
New Athens, IL 62264-3002
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N17261 links to the rest of the register
- Taylor J-2 21 registered
- Taylor 34 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A40 series 112 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- New Athens, IL 22 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N17261, 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 Schaller Lee W, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2006, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 927 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17261 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 N17261: Accident on January 13, 1996 at Lancaster, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 J2 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain adequate airspeed, while maneuvering from crosswind to downwind after takeoff, which resulted in an inadvertent stall/spin and collision with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data