Beech D17S
N61862 is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Merkel, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 16, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 4877
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- A80FBB (octal 52007673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 16, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00501456
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stark David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 893 County Road 350
Merkel, TX 79536-7141
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N61862, 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 Stark David M, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4877 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61862 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]
1 NTSB record under N61862: Accident on June 22, 2018 at Hamilton, MT: minor 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: Beech D17 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll and his subsequent inability to recover due to his foot being stuck.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA372 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data