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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Palen PALEN'S F E 8
N17501 is a Palen PALEN'S F E 8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation in Rhinebeck, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built; exhibition, dated May 8, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Palen
- Model
- PALEN'S F E 8
- Serial number
- 300
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A12E32 (octal 50227062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur built; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 23 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 8, 1979
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00532400
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 229
Rhinebeck, NY 12572-0229
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N17501 links to the rest of the register
- Palen 10 aircraft on the register
- Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum 56 aircraft in the fleet
- Rhinebeck, NY 72 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N17501.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N17501, 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 Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation, certificate issued March 5, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 300 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17501 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N17501. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data