Beech D17S
N17985 is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Black Cat Aviation LLC, an LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 6, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 4807
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A13E2A (octal 50237052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 6, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00114030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Cat Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Harry Todd
1 Indiana Sq Ste 2300
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2012
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N17985, 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 Black Cat Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 28, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 6, 1956, 13 years after the 1943 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 4807 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17985 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech F33A (serial CE717, cancelled November 22, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N17985: Accident on October 11, 1987 at Concord, NH: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech F-33A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88LA008 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