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N406DM, a State Aircraft Factories MIG-17T
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N406DM

State Aircraft Factories MIG-17T

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota

N406DM is a State Aircraft Factories MIG-17T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Stillwater, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 14, 1991.

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Aircraft

Maker
State Aircraft Factories
Model
MIG-17T
Serial number
0613
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
TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Klimov VK-1A · 5950 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A4C342 (octal 51141502)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 12, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 14, 1991
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00964071

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ward William e III
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
8250 Ingberg Ct N
Stillwater, MN 55082-8313

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N406DM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Klimov VK-1A 12 aircraft with this engine series · 5950 hp
Place
  • Stillwater, MN 69 aircraft registered in this town
  • Minnesota 6,936 aircraft registered

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N406DM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ward William e III, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0613 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N406DM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N406DM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data