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N17AL

Ross Al JABIRU SP

Valid Iowa

N17AL is a Ross Al JABIRU SP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waterloo, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 17, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Ross Al
Model
JABIRU SP
Serial number
0294
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Kit
JABIRU PTY LTD JABIRU SP
Transponder code
A116DF (octal 50213337)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2012
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 17, 2005
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00115810

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fox David R
Type
Individual
Address
5428 Gilbertville Rd
Waterloo, IA 50701-9176

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

—Bell 205A-1 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

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The public federal record on N17AL, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Fox David R, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 17, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0294 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N17AL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 205A-1 (serial 30165, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N17AL: Accident on June 7, 1983 at Deadhorse, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC83LA091Accident on June 7, 1983 at Deadhorse, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 30165

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 205A-1 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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