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N1981

Dennis Alan Pattie 1916 NIEUPORT 17C RE

N1981 is a Dennis Alan Pattie 1916 NIEUPORT 17C RE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Apple Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Dennis Alan Pattie
Model
1916 NIEUPORT 17C RE
Serial number
1916-01
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A1885E (octal 50304136)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 28, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 28, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01394883

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pattie Dennis A
Type
Individual
Address
16654 Menahka Rd
Apple Valley, CA 92307-1472

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 3

2011-12-05Boeing 727-23 · Sale reported, pending cancellation
1984-05-22Robinson Edward H B-8VW · Valid registration
1933-02-11Universal Aircraft Corp COUPE · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1981, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pattie Dennis A, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1916-01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1981 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Boeing 727-23 (serial 18437, cancelled December 5, 2011); Robinson Edward H B-8VW (serial R-8129-1, cancelled May 22, 1984); Universal Aircraft Corp COUPE (serial 101, cancelled February 11, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1981. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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