Southern Powered Parachutes CONDOR
N3174S is a Southern Powered Parachutes CONDOR, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Webster, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2007 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 2, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Southern Powered Parachutes
- Model
- CONDOR · all CONDORs and related versions
- Serial number
- A171CDR
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A363C7 (octal 50661707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2007
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · May 2, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00323429
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Parks Reuben G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 42783 146Th St
Webster, SD 57274-5901
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3174S, 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 Parks Reuben G, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2007, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 2, 2007, 4 years after the 2003 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 A171CDR for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3174S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182G (serial 18255674, cancelled August 17, 1964). 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 N3174S: Accident on November 2, 1989 at Saint Paul, MN: no 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: Bell 206L-3 · operated under 091
IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL EXHAUSTION DUE TO AN INADEQUATE SUPPLY OF FUEL. DARKNESS WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC90LA021 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
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