Darrel F Inman BABY ACE-D
N617D is a Darrel F Inman BABY ACE-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ford, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 2, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Darrel F Inman
- Model
- BABY ACE-D
- Serial number
- 002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-8F · 85 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A8090A (octal 52004412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 2, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00038809
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nielsen Mona L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 29704 Long Lake Rd
Ford, WA 99013-9523
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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 N617D, 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 Nielsen Mona L, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 2, 2012, 9 years after the 2003 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 002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N617D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C35 (serial D2875, cancelled October 23, 1992). 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 N617D: Accident on August 5, 1992 at Leslie, AR: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 C35 · operated under 091
PILOT ATTEMPTED VFR FLIGHT INTO IMC. FACTORS WERE FOG, MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN, AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF INSTRUMENT EXPERIENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92FA202 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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