Beech D17S
N18V is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation in Leesburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 21, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Staggerwing: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all under fabric. This is how the Beechcraft D17 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
- 6869
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A1402E (octal 50240056)
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 20, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 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 · April 21, 1956
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00872530
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Stearman INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 41665 Browns Farm Ln
Leesburg, VA 20176-6025
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 N18V links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft D17 127 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Eastern Stearman INC Trustee 111 aircraft in the fleet
- Leesburg, VA 216 aircraft registered in this town
- Leesburg Executive · JYO
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft D17 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft D17 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft D17 11 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N18V, 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 Eastern Stearman INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued April 20, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6869 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-38-B (serial 4149, cancelled April 1, 1939). 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 N18V. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data