Coplen Randy SPARROWHAWK
N17SH is a Coplen Randy SPARROWHAWK, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Yakima, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 11, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Coplen Randy
- Model
- SPARROWHAWK
- Serial number
- SH20030005K
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- AMERICAN AUTOGYRO INC SPARROWHAWK
- Transponder code
- A1186C (octal 50214154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 11, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00092349
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hodgman Robert J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 401 S 17Th Ave
Yakima, WA 98902-3803
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N17SH, 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 Hodgman Robert J, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 11, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH20030005K for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17SH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer SGS 2-33 (serial 82, cancelled December 5, 2001). 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 N17SH: Accident on December 18, 1983 at Mokuleia, HI: 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: Schweizer SGS-2-33A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
