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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Beech F17D
N238Y is a Beech F17D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Canby, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2010 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 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
- 272
- 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
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A2285E (octal 50424136)
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 1, 2010
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 21, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00100650
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wright Jeffrey C
- 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
- 9430 S Gribble Rd
Canby, OR 97013-9312
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N238Y links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft F17 15 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
- Jacobs L6 59 aircraft with this engine series · 330 hp
- Canby, OR 115 aircraft registered in this town
- Oregon 7,012 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
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The public federal record on N238Y, 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 Wright Jeffrey C, an individual, certificate issued April 1, 2010, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 21, 1956, 17 years after the 1939 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 272 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N238Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dassault-Breguet FALCON 50 (serial 185, cancelled September 25, 1990); Short L C A (serial 2, cancelled June 28, 1966). 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 N238Y. 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 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data