Beech D17S
N480 is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint Charles, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 30, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 4810
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E898 (octal 51364230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 30, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00120175
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robins Jack S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 223
Saint Charles, ID 83272-0223
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N480, 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 Robins Jack S, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 30, 1957, 14 years after the 1943 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 4810 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N480 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Temple Aero Corp SPORTSMAN (serial S-101, cancelled August 31, 1938). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N480: Accident on July 27, 1990 at Oelwein, IA: no injuries, substantial 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
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- 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 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