Piper J-2
N17837 is a Piper J-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Warrensburg, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 1989 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 6, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J-2 · all J-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1272
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 59 mph
- Transponder code
- A139C6 (octal 50234706)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 1989
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 6, 1958
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00361753
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Short David J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 655 SW 51St Rd
Warrensburg, MO 64093-7544
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 N17837, 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 Short David J, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 1989, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1272 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17837 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 N17837: Accident on August 8, 1993 at Warrensburg, MO: 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: Piper J-2 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate preflight planning and preparation. A factor in the accident was the downdraft near the end of the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93LA319 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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