Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR B9-4000
N8717 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR B9-4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to G L Leonard Aviation LLC, an LLC in Anacortes, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 26, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR B9-4000
- Serial number
- 1001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 975 A B D&E · 330 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- ABFD5A (octal 52776532)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 14, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 26, 1978
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00132261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- G L Leonard Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1004 Commercial Ave Ste 533
Anacortes, WA 98221-4117
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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 N8717, 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 G L Leonard Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 14, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8717 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 N8717. 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