Grissom Timothy J SH-IIIRG
N284 is a Grissom Timothy J SH-IIIRG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Columbia City, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 5, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grissom Timothy J
- Model
- SH-IIIRG
- Serial number
- 3171
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A2DCD6 (octal 50556326)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 1998
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 5, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00133726
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grissom Timothy J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3691 N 150 W
Columbia City, IN 46725-7850
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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
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The public federal record on N284, 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 Grissom Timothy J, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 1998, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 5, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3171 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N284 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas DC-7C (serial 45203, cancelled June 13, 1989); Boeing 40B (serial 895, cancelled July 1, 1937). 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]
1 NTSB record under N284: Incident on July 2, 1983 at King Salmon, AK: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Douglas DC-7C · operated under 091F
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC83IA111 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data