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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Heidenreich Frank W FOKKER DR-I
N72517 is a Heidenreich Frank W FOKKER DR-I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 19, 1983.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Heidenreich Frank W
- Model
- FOKKER DR-I
- Serial number
- H-1
- 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 · Warner SCARAB SERIES · 125 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A9B8BA (octal 52334272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 19, 1983
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00301507
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith James e Trustee
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 8177
Kalispell, MT 59904-1177 - Co-owners
- Talcott Jeri K Trustee
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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
Connections how N72517 links to the rest of the register
- Heidenreich Frank W 1 aircraft on the register
- Warner SCARAB series 71 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- Kalispell, MT 1,285 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N72517.json.
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The public federal record on N72517, 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 Smith James e Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued February 8, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 19, 1983, 3 years after the 1980 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 H-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72517 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9687, cancelled May 22, 1965). 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 N72517: Accident on February 23, 1990 at Kalispell, 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: Heindenreich FOKKER DR-1 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED, WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL. HIS LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH THIS AIRCRAFT WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data