Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN
N6171M is an Aerovodochody L-29 DELFIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 7, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerovodochody
- Model
- L-29 DELFIN · all L-29 DELFINs and related versions
- Serial number
- 691942
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 1 motor · Motorlet M-701C · 1960 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1966
- Transponder code
- A80B46 (octal 52005506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 7, 2017
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00596871
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nikodem James E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 736 Silk Oak Ln
Crystal Lake, IL 60014-4592
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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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N6171M, 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 Nikodem James E, an individual, certificate issued September 19, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 7, 2017, 51 years after the 1966 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 691942 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6171M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maule M-5-235C (serial 7180C, cancelled March 20, 1995). 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 N6171M: Accident on May 2, 1993 at Fowl Cay: serious 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: Maule M-5-235C · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data