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N717JA

Powrachute PC 2000

Valid Indiana

N717JA is a Powrachute PC 2000, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nappanee, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 5, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Powrachute
Model
PC 2000 · all PC 2000s and related versions
Serial number
A217POW
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A996D7 (octal 52313327)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 6, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 5, 2007
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00414929

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hamsher Austin J
Type
Individual
Address
555 Broad Ave
Nappanee, IN 46550-1307

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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 N717JA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hamsher Austin J, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A217POW for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N717JA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N717JA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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