Beech D17S
N20779 is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Shady Shores, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 11, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A1AF73 (octal 50327563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 11, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00400230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Daniel Craig
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 139 Hidden Valley Airpark
Shady Shores, TX 76208-7331 - Co-owners
- Thomas Karen Elizabeth
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 N20779, 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 Thomas Daniel Craig, a co-owned, certificate issued September 11, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 12, 1956, 16 years after the 1940 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 398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20779 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18261197, cancelled February 9, 1981). 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 N20779. 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 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 August 27, 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