Short Terry S-17-S
N539JP is a Short Terry S-17-S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Jewett City, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 11, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Short Terry
- Model
- S-17-S
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 447 · 40 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6D2B2 (octal 51551262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 11, 2007
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00435209
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eldridge Donald
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 252 E Main St
Jewett City, CT 06351-2173
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N539JP, 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 Eldridge Donald, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N539JP 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 N539JP. 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 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