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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Taylor
- Model
- J-2 · all J-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 927
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00953022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schaller Lee W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1410 Baldwin Rd
New Athens, IL 62264-3002
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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX96FA095 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data