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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Vulcanair Spa P68 OBSERVER 2
N17ZX is a Vulcanair Spa P68 OBSERVER 2, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Idpa Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; forest, dated October 17, 2019.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Owyhee Air Research, LLC., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 1:25 pm.
Last seen October 29 at 1:25 pm. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vulcanair Spa
- Model
- P68 OBSERVER 2 · all P68 OBSERVER 2s 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 Vulcanair Spa P68 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
- 433-29/OB2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A11929 (octal 50214451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial surveying; ForestFAA certificate purpose code 24 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 2019
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01206784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Idpa Aircraft Leasing 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
- 2119 Frate Barker Rd Unit 2106
Austin, TX 78748-3604
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.
Connections how N17ZX links to the rest of the register
- Vulcanair Spa P68 10 registered
- Vulcanair Spa 10 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Owyhee Air Research, LLC. · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 141 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Idpa Aircraft Leasing LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Austin, TX 789 aircraft registered in this town
- Austin Executive · EDC
- Austin-Bergstrom International · AUS
- San Marcos Regional · HYI
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Vulcanair Spa P68 33 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Vulcanair Spa P68 155 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6 192 reports since 1995
- Where N17ZX is now · Last seen October 29 at 1:25 pm.
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The public federal record on N17ZX, 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 Idpa Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 5, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 17, 2019, 12 years after the 2007 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 433-29/OB2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17ZX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N17ZX. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data