Piper PA-28RT-201
N17MS is a Piper PA-28RT-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Darcy Aviation LLC, an LLC in Danbury, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1979.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 9:31 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28RT-201 · all PA-28RT-201s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 28R-7918152
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A117F8 (octal 50213770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 26, 1979
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00600813
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Darcy Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1 Wallingford Rd Unit 2
Danbury, CT 06810-7499
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
Connections how N17MS links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,637 registered
- Piper 44,845 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,558 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Darcy Aviation LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Danbury, CT 66 aircraft registered in this town
- Danbury Municipal · DXR
- Connecticut 1,609 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Where N17MS is now · Last seen Sunday at 9:31 am.
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The public federal record on N17MS, 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 Darcy Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 7, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7918152 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17MS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182M (serial 18259496, cancelled March 12, 2008). 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 N17MS. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data