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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Beech 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Staggerwing: a welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all under fabric. This is how the Beechcraft D17 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 4877
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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 · 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 registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · February 16, 1956
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00501456
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stark David M
- 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
- 893 County Road 350
Merkel, TX 79536-7141
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N61862 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft D17 127 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Merkel, TX 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,940 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft D17 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft D17 4 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft D17 11 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data