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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Faber Vincent L SCORPION 133
N51017 is a Faber Vincent L SCORPION 133, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter). It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Andale, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 1988 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 1988.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Faber Vincent L
- Model
- SCORPION 133
- Serial number
- F883417
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (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 · Rotorway RW152 · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6640A (octal 51462012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 1988
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 26, 1988
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00544061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Faber Vincent L
- 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
- 26801 W 45Th St N
Andale, KS 67001-9613
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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 3
Connections how N51017 links to the rest of the register
- Faber Vincent L 1 aircraft on the register
- RotorWay RW152 25 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Andale, KS 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,740 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N51017, 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 Faber Vincent L, an individual, certificate issued February 11, 1988, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F883417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51017 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201 (serial 28R8031110, cancelled August 7, 1984); Hughes 269C (serial 711069, cancelled September 22, 1981); Cessna 172 (serial 17274250, cancelled February 19, 1981). 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 N51017: Accident on July 5, 2024 at Andale, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rotorway Scorpion 133 · operated under 091
The pilot’s abrupt control inputs, which resulted in a low-G condition, main rotor mast bumping, and subsequent severing of the tailboom by the main rotor blades.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data