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N4594H

Piper PA-17

Valid Michigan

N4594H is a Piper PA-17, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cadillac, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 1997 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 16, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-17 · all PA-17s and related versions
Serial number
17-12
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1948
Cruising speed
75 mph
Transponder code
A59677 (octal 51313167)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 17, 1997
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · May 16, 1956
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00773024

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lund John G
Type
Individual
Address
2385 35 1/2 Rd
Cadillac, MI 49601-8880

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4594H, 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 Lund John G, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 1997, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 1956, 8 years after the 1948 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17-12 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4594H 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4594H: Accident on July 7, 1997 at Cadillac, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI97LA203Accident on July 7, 1997 at Cadillac, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-17 · operated under 091

the pilot failed to maintain control of the airplane during an attempted go-around and the pilot's lack of recent flight experience.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA203 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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