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N174JK

Butler James A SERIES 90

Valid Indiana

N174JK is a Butler James A SERIES 90, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Goodland, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 1999 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 9, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Butler James A
Model
SERIES 90
Serial number
990004
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2000
Kit
EXPRESS ACFT CO LLC SERIES 90
Transponder code
A128DB (octal 50224333)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 12, 1999
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 9, 2000
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00443607

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Butler James A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 422
Goodland, IN 47948-0422

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N174JK, 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 Butler James A, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 1999, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 9, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 990004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N174JK 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N174JK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data