Navion L-17A
N2968C is a Navion L-17A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Manhattan, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 1988 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 12, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Navion
- Model
- L-17A · all L-17As and related versions
- Serial number
- NAV-4-1070
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E185 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A30F37 (octal 50607467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 1988
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 12, 1958
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00620913
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hammond Neil K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8978 Tuttle Creek Blvd
Manhattan, KS 66503-9088
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.
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The public federal record on N2968C, 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 Hammond Neil K, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 1988, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 12, 1958, 11 years after the 1947 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 NAV-4-1070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2968C 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 N2968C: Accident on July 22, 2003 at Canton, IL: minor injuries, substantial 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: Navion L-17A · operated under 091
A complete loss of engine power during landing approach for undetermined reasons, as well as the unsuitable terrain for a forced landing encountered by the pilot. Contributing factors were the berm and the crops.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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