Piper PA-17
N4639H 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 Barnstormers Holdings INC, a corporation in Sugar Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 1, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-17 · all PA-17s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-17 Vagabond 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
- 17-52
- 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 · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A5A85B (octal 51324133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · August 1, 1955
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00403184
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Barnstormers Holdings INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6 S Main St Ste 4
Sugar Grove, IL 60554-5030
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4639H links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-17 Vagabond 97 registered
- Piper 44,837 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,964 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Barnstormers Holdings INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Sugar Grove, IL 55 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,061 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-17 Vagabond 12 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-17 Vagabond 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-17 Vagabond 107 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N4639H, 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 Barnstormers Holdings INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 18, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 1955, 7 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17-52 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4639H 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 N4639H. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data