Monocoupe D145
N17687 is a Monocoupe D145, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 1976 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 5, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Monocoupe
- Model
- D145
- Serial number
- D-128
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SS40&50 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A13307 (octal 50231407)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 1976
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 5, 1957
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00012440
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lerille Red
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 301 Doucet Rd
Lafayette, LA 70503
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.
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The public federal record on N17687, 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 Lerille Red, an individual, certificate issued March 23, 1976, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 1957, 16 years after the 1941 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 D-128 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17687 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 N17687: Accident on March 19, 1991 at Lafayette, LA: minor 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: Monocoupe Aircraft D145 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data