Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E
N321SS is a Valentin Gmbh TAIFUN 17E, a glider with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Massapequa Park, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Valentin Gmbh
- Model
- TAIFUN 17E · all TAIFUN 17Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 1030
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach LIMBACH L2000 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A373A8 (octal 50671650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 28, 1988
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00583534
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Short Jeffrey P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 245 Walnut St
Massapequa Park, NY 11762-1743
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 N321SS, 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 Short Jeffrey P, an individual, certificate issued June 4, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 28, 1988, 4 years after the 1984 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 1030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N321SS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N321SS. 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