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N7217L

Leupp Matthew C MERLIN

Valid Ohio

N7217L is a Leupp Matthew C MERLIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Canal Winchester, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Leupp Matthew C
Model
MERLIN
Serial number
HV-32
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Kit
AEROMARINE CONSULTING INC MERLIN
Transponder code
A9AA9B (octal 52325233)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 19, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 19, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01475745

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Leupp Mathhew C
Type
Individual
Address
9070 Slough Rd
Canal Winchester, OH 43110-9230

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

2012-07-19Beech C-99 · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1971-09-22Piper PA-31 · exported to Japan · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N7217L, 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 Leupp Mathhew C, an individual, certificate issued November 19, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HV-32 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7217L was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C-99 (serial U-226, cancelled July 19, 2012); Piper PA-31 (serial 31732, cancelled September 22, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N7217L: Accident on July 10, 1991 at Birmingham, AL: fatal, destroyed (13 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

DCA91MA042Accident on July 10, 1991 at Birmingham, AL: fatal, destroyed (13 fatal).serial on NTSB record: U226

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C99 · operated under 135

THE DECISION OF THE CAPTAIN TO INITIATE AND CONTINUE AN INSTRUMENT APPROACH INTO CLEARLY IDENTIFIED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY, RESULTING IN A LOSS OF CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE FROM WHICH THE FLIGHTCREW WAS UNABLE TO RECOVER AND SUBSEQUENT COLLISION WITH OBSTACLES AND THE TERRAIN. (NTSB REPORT AAR-92/01)

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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