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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Grumman TBM-3E
N4170A is a Grumman TBM-3E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fort Valley, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2007 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated January 21, 1987.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- TBM-3E · all TBM-3Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Grumman TBM-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 91453
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wright R-2600 SER · 1700 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 266 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F07A (octal 51170172)
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 7, 2007
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · January 21, 1987
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00071564
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Christopher e
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 361 Stage Hill Ln
Fort Valley, VA 22652-2956 - Co-owners
- Klaers William R / Wojciak Alan J
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.
Connections how N4170A links to the rest of the register
- Grumman TBM-3 40 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-2600 series 52 aircraft with this engine series · 1700 hp
- Fort Valley, VA 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Grumman TBM-3 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Grumman TBM-3 9 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Grumman TBM-3 4 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N4170A, 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 Johnson Christopher e, a co-owned, certificate issued September 7, 2007, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 91453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4170A 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 N4170A. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data