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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- G-44 · all G-44s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Grumman G-44 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
- 1360
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Lycoming GO-435 · 210 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 131 mph
- Transponder code
- A12B93 (octal 50225623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 21, 1974
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00182390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ball Fred e
- 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
- 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
Connections how N17481 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman G-44 82 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming GO-435 33 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- College Place, WA 35 aircraft registered in this town
- Martin Field · S95
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Grumman G-44 1 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming GO-435 5 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Breather, chafed · 1998-09-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wheel, failed · 1995-07-31
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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.
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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data