Donald Forton FOKKER DR1 TRIPLANE
N817DF is a Donald Forton FOKKER DR1 TRIPLANE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aeroplane Factory, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 7, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Donald Forton
- Model
- FOKKER DR1 TRIPLANE
- Serial number
- 2017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SS165 SERIES · 175 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- AB23AE (octal 52621656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 7, 2017
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01158232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aeroplane Factory
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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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 · 5 clear
The public federal record on N817DF, 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 Aeroplane Factory, a corporation, certificate issued September 28, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 7, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N817DF 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N817DF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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