Grumman G-44
N17481 is a Grumman G-44, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in College Place, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 21, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-44 · all G-44s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1360
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming GO-435 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 131 mph
- Transponder code
- A12B93 (octal 50225623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 21, 1974
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00182390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ball Fred E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 513 SW 3Rd St
College Place, WA 99324-1233
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N17481, 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 Ball Fred E, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 21, 1974, 30 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 1360 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17481 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca K (serial K-2, cancelled July 21, 1940). 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 N17481: Accident on August 1, 1995 at Kodiak, AK: 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: Grumman G-44 · operated under 135
OVERLOAD FAILURE OF THE MAIN LANDING GEAR WHEEL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC95LA122 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