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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Beech F17D
N19473 is a Beech F17D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1938. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 1994 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 23, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- F17D · all F17Ds 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 F17 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
- 245
- 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 · Jacobs L6 · 330 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1938
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A17A70 (octal 50275160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 1994
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · May 23, 1956
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00472960
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- See David M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 74 W Hidden Valley Airpark
Denton, TX 76208
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N19473 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft F17 15 registered
- Beech 17,443 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
- Jacobs L6 59 aircraft with this engine series · 330 hp
- Denton, TX 500 aircraft registered in this town
- Denton Enterprise Airport · DTO
- Joy Airport · 17TA
- Texas 29,985 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft F17 2 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft F17 4 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Jacobs L6 5 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N19473.json.
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The public federal record on N19473, 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 See David M, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 1994, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 1956, 18 years after the 1938 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 245 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N19473 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 N19473: Accident on October 20, 1982 at Hollister, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech F17D · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data