Spartan 7W
N17613 is a Spartan 7W, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1937. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Neustadt. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 1, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Spartan
- Model
- 7W · all 7Ws 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. The Spartan Executive: all-metal, and polished. This is how the Spartan 7 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
- 12
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1937
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A1320E (octal 50231016)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2023
- 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 · October 1, 1956
- FAA region
- EuropeanFAA region code 8 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00532420
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Von Wedel Justus T
- 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
- Ricklinger Str 38
Neustadt, 31535
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N17613 links to the rest of the register
- Spartan 7 19 registered
- Spartan 29 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Approved modifications for the Spartan 7 6 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Trunnion, broken · 2000-08-11
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N17613.json.
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The public federal record on N17613, 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 Von Wedel Justus T, an individual, certificate issued August 5, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 1, 1956, 19 years after the 1937 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 12 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17613 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 N17613: Accident on July 6, 2000 at Jefferson, OH: 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: Spartan 7W · operated under 091
The overload failure of the left main gear strut housing.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data