Piper PA-23-250
N17AK is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kure Beach, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-250 · all PA-23-250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 27-7854103
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A116DE (octal 50213336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 31, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00472085
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Francis Joseph
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 429 Fort Fisher Blvd S
Kure Beach, NC 28449-3733
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N17AK, 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 Francis Joseph, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-7854103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Kennedy Allen R DRAGONFLY (serial 182, cancelled June 12, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N17AK. 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 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 September 30, 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