Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E
N17NT is a Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E, a glider with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mount Shasta, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 8, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Valentin Gmbh
- Model
- TAIFUN 17E · all TAIFUN 17Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1046
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A11812 (octal 50214022)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 8, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00581475
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ireland Robert C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1239 Wyehka Way
Mount Shasta, CA 96067-9005
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N17NT, 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 Ireland Robert C, an individual, certificate issued June 8, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17NT 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 N17NT: Accident on August 15, 1998 at Lake Geneva, WI: 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: Valentin TAIFUN 17E · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control and obtain proper climb rate during initial climb after takeoff. A factor was trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA314 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data