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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Beech 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Staggerwing: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all under fabric. This is how the Beechcraft D17 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
- 4810
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E898 (octal 51364230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 10, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 8, 2023
- 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 · April 30, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00120175
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robins Jack S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 223
Saint Charles, ID 83272-0223
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N480 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft D17 127 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Saint Charles, ID 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Idaho 4,200 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft D17 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft D17 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft D17 11 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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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]
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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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data