Beech D17S
N4417S is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation in Chino, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 20, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 6918
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A551B2 (octal 51250662)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 20, 1959
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00690613
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Planes Of Fame Air Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14998 Cal Aero Dr
Chino, CA 91710-9056
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 N4417S, 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 Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 28, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 20, 1959, 15 years after the 1944 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 6918 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4417S 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 N4417S: Accident on November 3, 2012 at Van Nuys, CA: no injuries, minor 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: Beech D17S · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper visual lookout during taxi, which resulted in an on-ground collision with another airplane.
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 September 30, 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